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off record

off record is the alternative form of off the record.

Meaning of off the record

Prepositional phrase

  1. Not for publication.
    • RAIL spoke to many people in the course of our investigation - all off-the-record^([sic]), as no one wished to be quoted.2025 July 9, Mel Holley, “How much should a station cost?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 25
  2. Unofficial.

Questions about off record

What is off record the alternative form of?
Off record is the alternative form of off the record.

Words near off record in the dictionary

  1. off one's trolley
  2. off ox
  3. off oxen
  4. off pat
  5. off piste
  6. off record
  7. off reserve
  8. off rip
  9. off script
  10. off service
  11. off side

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Adapted from Wiktionary: off record (page history and authors); off the record (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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