Phrase info

of record

Meaning

Officially or publicly recorded or documented.
His title to the property is of record at the county clerk's office.

(of a periodical) Regarded as authoritative.
The New York Times benefits from being considered a newspaper of record.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people. Donald Trump

Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today. Charlton Heston

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts. Anni-Frid Lyngstad

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. Matthew Sweet

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. Stephanie Herseth

I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging. Art Garfunkel

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