officialdom

Other forms: officialdoms

Definitions of officialdom
  1. noun
    people elected or appointed to administer a government
    synonyms: government officials
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    civil service
    the government workforce exclusive of military service
    bureaucracy, bureaucratism
    nonelective government officials
    Pentagon
    the United States military establishment
    Whitehall
    the British civil service
    type of:
    administration, brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization
    the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
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