to gazette
- verb
- /ɡəˈzɛt/
- UK
- The government will gazette the new regulations next week for public awareness.
Examples
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He plans to gazette the appointments in the official journal to inform the citizens.
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After the decision was made, the committee decided to gazette the announcement immediately.
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And Gagen gazettes, they are not being opposed to each other in this loving recognition.
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These tactics harken back to his earlier impulses to "gazette" such hackneyed signifiers as "God" and "soul" in "reporting religious experience," though in these earlier instances it was the individual's possibility for self-realization that he sought to free up.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
Made available to the public in print or online
Many people know about it, often from the news
Antonyms
How Official
- Formal
- UK
- Texting
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gazette as a verb comes from the name of the newspaper gazette. Governments and officials put announcements in the gazette, so to 'gazette' something is to officially publish it in that record.