by right of office

1. 1.

   by virtue of position

   “the president sat on the committee ex officio”

   Synonymsex officio

Questions about by right of office

What does by right of office mean?

by right of office means "by virtue of position".

What is another word for by right of office?

Close synonyms include ex officio. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is by right of office a common word?

by right of office is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.