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/əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm/ · noun
The people elected to government or employed in the civil service..
[Magazine staffer:] In the bag may be the next chief—a wedding to one of officialdom's family will assure certainty.
Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.
An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.
This was largely due to its widespread use in the army and officialdom in the Ottoman Empire.
Use officialdom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Officialdom means The people elected to government or employed in the civil service..
Common synonyms include government officials.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[Magazine staffer:] In the bag may be the next chief—a wedding to one of officialdom's family will assure certainty.
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