OFFICIALDOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does officialdom mean? 

• OFFICIALDOM (noun)
  The noun OFFICIALDOM has 1 sense:

1. people elected or appointed to administer a government

  Familiarity information: OFFICIALDOM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFFICIALDOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People elected or appointed to administer a government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

government officials; officialdom

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)