officialdom

plural officialdoms

1. countableuncountableThe 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.

   1960 October 6, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 153

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   Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.

   2005, Donald Bloxham, The Great Game of Genocide, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2023, page 44

   An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.

   2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon

2. countablerareuncountableThe state of being official

   This was largely due to its widespread use in the army and officialdom in the Ottoman Empire.

   2013, Christian Ortner, Hermann Hinterstoisser; [], The Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War. Uniforms & Equipment - from 1914 to 1918