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officialdom
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun officialdom has 1 sense
- officialdom(n = noun.group) government officials - people elected or appointed to administer a government; Array is a member of authorities, government, regime
is a kind of administration, brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization
has particulars: civil service, bureaucracy, bureaucratism
Derived form noun official1
CIDE DICTIONARY
officialdom, n.
The body of all people elected or appointed to administer a government, taken collectively. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
officialdom
bureaucracy, directorate, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, management, ministry, prelacy, ruling class, ruling classes, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, them, they, top brass
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