Definition of "off-the-record" []

• Not for publication or attribution: off-the-record comments by the senator. (adjective)

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• "Among those who attended the off-the-record dinner: Iran scholar Haleh Esfandiari; Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid (who had flown in from Lahore); Obama friend and foreign-policy advisor Samantha Power of Harvard University (who accompanied PEOTUS to the meeting); incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel; and a few others."
• "As president, it will presumably be more difficult to schedule an off-the-record dinner with informal advisors."
• "Among those who attended the off-the-record dinner:"