Officialdom
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Officialdom is a noun meaning The people elected to government or employed in the civil service.
Meaning
The people elected to government or employed in the civil service.
More Meanings
- (rare) The state of being official
Example Sentences
This was largely due to its widespread use in the army and officialdom in the Ottoman Empire.
[Magazine staffer:] In the bag may be the next chief—a wedding to one of officialdom's family will assure certainty.
An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.
Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.
Word Forms
- officialdoms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bureaucracy, official, administration, tape, officer, officeholder.
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