how to pronounce officiate

/əˈfɪʃ.i.ɛɪt/

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officiate is pronounced in four syllables

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əfɪʃiɛɪt

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An example use of officiate in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… think as a referee when we officiate we …”

meanings of officiate

verb:

  1. To serve as umpire or referee.
  2. To perform the functions of some office.

noun:

  1. A person appointed to office.

officiate frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word officiate occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics officiate can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that officiate can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;

words that rhyme with officiate

propitiateinitiatevitiate

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