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- For specific non-governmental newspapers, see The Gazette. For the band, see Gazette (band).
A gazette is a newspaper. In the governments of Commonwealth countries, a gazette is a government publication describing new laws and government decisions.
The word comes from gazzetta, a Venetian coin used to buy early Italian newspapers; the coin became a name for the papers themselves. The word was loaned into English to describe a newspaper. "Gazette" came to be used for an official government paper with the creation of the London Gazette in 1665.
The word "gazette" is also used as a transitive verb, meaning to announce or publish in a gazette: "Lake Nakuru was gazetted as a bird sanctuary in 1960, then was upgraded to National Park status in 1968."
[edit] Gazettes of Commonwealth countries
- Gazette of India
- Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
- Australian Public Service Gazette
- Canada Gazette
- Hong Kong Gazette [1]
- Gazette of Pakistan
- Philippine Official Gazette
- Singapore Gazette [2]
- Government Gazette of South Africa
- United Kingdom
- London Gazette
- Belfast Gazette
- Edinburgh Gazette
[edit] Gazettes of non-Commonwealth countries
- Federal Register, the gazette of the federal government of the United States)
- Iris Oifigiúil, the gazette of the government of the Republic of Ireland (originally called the Dublin Gazette)
- Official Journal of the European Union, the gazette of the European Union
- Journal Officiel de la République Française, the official gazette of France
- Mémorial, the gazette of Luxembourg
- Post- och Inrikes Tidningar, the gazette of Sweden
- Wiener Zeitung, the gazette of Austria