officialdom
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[edit]Noun
[edit]officialdom (countable and uncountable, plural officialdoms)
- 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.
Translations
[edit]The people elected to government or employed in the civil service
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