ex officio
adverb or adjective
Examples of ex officio in a Sentence
Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 25 Aug. 2023
Lawmakers introduced legislation earlier this month to abolish the board and put the agency under the control of the office of State Treasurer Dereck Davis, who has served as an ex officio member of the board since December 2021.
—Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023
Low-profile bureaucrats — commissioners, comptrollers, City Council members — get free invites as ex officio trustees of the Met or guests of Vogue.
—Curbed, 2 May 2023
The county tax assessor-collector would serve as an ex officio director.
—Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
Jarboe also serves on the board of trustees for St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore (Lori is the board chair) and is an ex officio member of the St. Maria Goretti Catholic High School board of trustees in Hagerstown.
—Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2023
The city’s chief financial officer would serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member.
—Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
The then mayor, who was allied with the right-wing national government of the day, used his ex officio position to slash the festival’s funding and punish festival officials, including Lee.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 June 2023
Other people on the board, like Comptroller Brooke Lierman and Maryland state schools superintendent Mohammed Choudhury, are ex officio members.
—Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2023
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Late Latin
1533, in the meaning defined above
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