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Definition of Off the record
1. Adverb. Not for quotation. "He spoke to the reporter off the record"
Definition of Off the record
1. Prepositional phrase. Not for publication. ¹
2. Prepositional phrase. Unofficial ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Off The Record
Literary usage of Off the record
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"... and send for Mr. George Nowell, Boat-builder, and going with him to the
Register, I cancell the Mortgage and take it off the Record. ..."
2. Public Education in Rhode Island by Charles Carroll (1918)
"AN INVESTIGATION off the record. The following resolution appears in the Schedules
for the October session, 1851: "The House of Representatives having ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"From b, he should lay off the record bearing and the distance toward c, at which
point a temporary stake should be planted. From c, he should lay off the ..."
4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1888)
"... etc., so that the reproducer may be set at that point on the wax as soon as
you wish to take off the record which you impressed or stored up. ..."
5. Aid Activities in Asia and the Central Asian Republics: Hearing Before the edited by Doug Bereuter (1997)
"But we do have a lot of off-the-record stories that I would be happy to share
... But almost all of them were off the record, just as background for us. ..."
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