self-officiated
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
officiated by players, on the "honor system", rather than by an outside observer such as a referee.
Example Sentences
- "Ultimate Frisbee is a self-officiated noncontact field game, using seven players per side and requiring continuous motion, much like soccer or basketball."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English officiated English self-officiated From self- + officiated.