football official
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈfʊtbɔl əˈfɪʃəl/
:
árbitro de fútbol
- First, football officials would perceive more stress from fear of physical harm than volleyball officials.
- a school football official
- a high school football official
Examples
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Since the assignor is not a football official, how does he know if a crew is qualified?
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This man had been a college football official in 1982.
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The GMC may be the only conference in the state that does not have an evaluation process for high school football officials.
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Kerns would attend Stanford and later become an outstanding college football official.
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The GMC needs to change its policy and hire an assignor from the local football officials association.
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Goldsmith and Williams (1992) examined the sources of stress among a sample of volleyball and football officials.
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It is very unfortunate that Coach Borden's editorial tries to shed a bad light on the high school football officials who work in the GMC.
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Doug Rhoads, the ACC coordinator of football officials, was in the Wallace Wade press box Saturday night and went into a room to watch a replay after the collision occurred.
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In a study of intercollegiate football officials, Ittenbach and Eller (1988) reported that personality profiles echoed those of other studies, with an emphasis on leadership qualities.
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A football official has to ensure that all players follow the game rules during the match.
Synonyms
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3.7
A person who works for a government or organization and has power to make and enforce rules
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4.3
A person who makes sure people follow rules or laws
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4.8
An official who helps the referee by watching the sideline and keeping the game time
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4.9
An official who watches the lines and signals when the ball is out or a player is offside
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6.8
A woman who helps the referee by deciding if the ball is out or offside
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5.5
An official in American football who stands deep behind defenders to watch the play and enforce rules
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7.9
An official in American football who watches plays and passes downfield on one sideline
An official in American football who watches passes and calls penalties near the far sideline
A person with a flag on the sideline who helps the referee call offside and out of play
A person who watches the line to tell if a ball or player is out
An official who watches the line where play starts and records yards gained or lost
An official who records how many yards a team gains or loses and watches the chain crew
A woman official in American football who records how many yards a team gains or loses
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'football' (the sport) and 'official' (a person who enforces rules) can infer this refers to the rule-enforcing person in a football match. This noun+noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic naming pattern with no idiomatic shift, so the meaning is immediately derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Football official comes from the idea of someone chosen to be an official at a football match. They stand on the field with a whistle to watch play and make decisions, so the name means the person who is 'making sure players follow the rules'.