gazette
IPA: gʌzˈɛt
noun
- A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.
- (law, often capitalized and italicized in legislations) A official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
verb
- To publish in a gazette.
- (Britain) To announce the status of in an official gazette. This pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
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Examples of "gazette" in Sentences
- The following "gazette" appeared in the _Moniteur_: --
- (though it is an engaging thing, I think) the word "gazette" is the great word among the titles of trade journals.
- It says the measure will come into force after its publication in the official gazette, which is expected "imminently".
- The gazette is the last stop for draft laws before reaching parliament, where President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African
- Finally the office of Gazetteer was abolished, and any man who wished might issue a "gazette," provided he kept within proper bounds.
- And what gives this cop the right to call the gazette reporter after giving him a ticket for BREAKING THE LAW and tell him to rip it up?
- He served me as a kind of gazette of all that passed with the princesses, in whose opinion I had still the misfortune not to be in the very highest estimation.
- This word "gazette" makes its appeal, too, curiously enough, to those who christen country papers; and trade journals have much of the intimate charm of country papers.
- In the year 1531, a newspaper was printed at Venice, for which the price charged was a Venetian coin called gazetta; and hence is derived our word gazette; the name of the coin having been transferred to the paper. 1
- The first "gazette" was watched for with straining eyes, and naturally would follow aching hearts; for disappointment here first sowed the dragon's teeth that were to spring into armed opponents of the unappreciative power.
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