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OFFICIALDOM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People elected or appointed to administer a government
Synonyms:
government officials; officialdom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("officialdom" is a kind 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "officialdom"):
civil service (government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations)
bureaucracy; bureaucratism (nonelective government officials)
Holonyms ("officialdom" is a member of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
Derivation:
official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
