Meaning of Officialdom | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The people elected to government or employed in the civil service.
   countable, uncountable
2. The state of being official
   countable, rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[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.”

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