Officialdom

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  officialdom \officialdom\ n.
     The body of all people elected or appointed to administer a
     government, taken collectively.
  
     Syn: government officials.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  officialdom
       n : people elected or appointed to administer a government [syn:
            {government officials}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "officialdom":
     bureaucracy, directorate, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups,
     management, ministry, prelacy, ruling class, ruling classes,
     the Establishment, the administration, the authorities,
     the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite,
     the power structure, the top, them, they, top brass