off the record

1. 1.

   not for quotation

   “he spoke to the reporter off the record”

Questions about off the record

What does off the record mean?

off the record means "not for quotation".

Is off the record a common word?

off the record 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.