official document

Questions about official document

What does official document mean?

official document means "(law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right".

What is another word for official document?

Close synonyms include legal document, legal instrument, instrument. 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 official document a common word?

official document 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.