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Definition of Officialdom
1. Noun. People elected or appointed to administer a government.
Group relationships: Authorities, Government, Regime
Generic synonyms: Administration, Brass, Establishment, Governance, Governing Body, Organisation, Organization
Specialized synonyms: Civil Service, Bureaucracy, Bureaucratism
Derivative terms: Official
Definition of Officialdom
1. Noun. The people elected to government or employed in the civil service ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Officialdom
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Officialdom
Literary usage of Officialdom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"officialdom (" Functional-ism "), Separation of Powers and the Hierarchy. ...
administration of the Later Empire all the characteristics of our officialdom ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... (1841) shocked all officialdom, but had a great popular success ; and his '
Poems' (1845) showed true poetic feeling and great descriptive power, ..."
3. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"... emendations and interpolations of a committee of men without knowledge or
taste, — unless the thing should be done quite independently of officialdom. ..."
4. Russia, Her Strength and Her Weakness: A Study of the Present Conditions of by Wolf von Schierbrand (1904)
"... Harm Done by Centralising Bureaucracy—The Creeping in of Disloyal Elements
within Russian officialdom—Present Centralising and Monopolistic Tendencies— ..."
5. Russia, Her Strength and Her Weakness: A Study of the Present Conditions of by Wolf von Schierbrand (1904)
"... Harm Done by Centralising Bureaucracy—The Creeping in of Disloyal Elements
within Russian officialdom—Present Centralising and Monopolistic Tendencies— ..."
6. The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring by Hugh Marriott (2003)
"Chapter 7 officialdom and Chaos Theory Ignore it What this book means by officialdom
What it's for Money Information Services to help us look after our ..."
7. Mystic Isles of the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien (1921)
"CHAPTER VI The Cercle Bougainville—officialdom in Tahiti—My first visit to the
Bougainville—Skippers and merchants—A song and a drink—The flavor of the ..."
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