gazette

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noun

ga·zette gə-ˈzet

Synonyms of gazette next

: newspaper

: an official journal

British : an announcement in an official gazette

gazette

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verb

gazetted; gazetting

transitive verb

chiefly British : to announce or publish in a gazette

British : to announce the appointment or status of in an official gazette

Did you know?

You are probably familiar with the word gazette from its use in the names of a number of newspapers, but the original Gazettes were a series of bulletins published in England in the 17th and early 18th centuries. These official journals contained notices of government appointments and promotions, as well as items like bankruptcies, property transfers, and engagements. In British English, gazette can also refer to the kind of announcement that one might find in such a publication. It can also be used as a verb meaning "to announce or publish in a gazette." The word derives via French from Italian gazetta. The related word gazetteer, which we now use for a dictionary of place names, once meant "journalist" or "publicist."

Examples of gazette in a Sentence

Noun picked up the monthly car-buyer's gazette when he was in town

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Market professionals found to have interacted with individuals who are thought to have misled members of investment chat groups now face fines of as much as 5 million liras ($660,000) a 100-fold increase, according to the notice in the government gazette. —

Taylan Bilgic, Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2020 These were very subversive tales that empowered these women and vented their wishful fantasies — often published in the literary gazettes of their day. —

New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023 The two countries will cooperate in the development of ships and other instruments for space exploration, as well as land infrastructure to launch and control space missions and satellites, according to an agreement published in Argentina’s official gazette on Friday. —

Patrick Gillespie, Bloomberg.com, 10 Aug. 2020 Under a state of emergency declared because of natural disaster, the government can request that public and private institutions or individuals give up land, buildings, vehicles, food and medicine, according to the country’s official gazette of laws. —

Rory Jones, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023 Filmed in South Africa and Scotland, the series centers on Maria Purvis (Kennedy), an empathetic, accomplished recipe advice columnist for a small-town gazette, who investigates the murder of one of her correspondents. —

Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Feb. 2022 The legislation came into effect on April 1, according to an official gazette issued Friday, and allows authorities to arrest and imprison suspects without warrants. —

Rukshana Rizwie, Sophie Jeong and Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 1 Apr. 2022 The delisting by the ministry’s Food and Drug Administration will now need to be formally signed by the health minister and enters into effect 120 days after its publication in the government gazette. —

Time, 26 Jan. 2022 The decision issued by the ministries of health, justice, infrastructure and the government's chief of staff was published in the nation’s official gazette Thursday. —

Debora Alvares, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021

Verb

In 1993, the Economist was gazetted after authorities claimed that the magazine had denied them the right of reply by refusing to publish letters from Singapore’s High Commissioner in London in full. —

Time, 2 Aug. 2023 The grassroots Porter and Guide Association is partnering with Kenya Wildlife Service to gazette regulations. —

Kang-Chun Cheng, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2022 On April 5, two workers’ dormitories were gazetted as isolation areas, keeping over 20,000 in shamefully cramped areas. —

Jerrine Tan, Wired, 29 Apr. 2020 When the national parks were gazetted for the benefit of wildlife, the indigenous forest dwellers, the Batwa, were cast out. —

Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2020 See More

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