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officialdom

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Etymology

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From official +‎ -dom.

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Noun

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officialdom (countable and uncountable, plural officialdoms)

  1. The people elected to government or employed in the civil service.
    • 1960 June 10, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 153:
      [Magazine staffer:] In the bag may be the next chief—a wedding to one of officialdom's family will assure certainty.
    • 2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon:
      An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.

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