Usually means: Bureaucracy, authority of government officials.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. officialdom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. officialdom: Merriam-Webster
  3. officialdom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. officialdom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. officialdom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Officialdom, officialdom: Wordnik
  7. officialdom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. officialdom: Wiktionary
  9. officialdom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. officialdom: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. officialdom: Dictionary.com
  12. Officialdom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. officialdom: Rhymezone
  14. officialdom: FreeDictionary.org
  15. officialdom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. officialdom: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. officialdom: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. officialdom: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  The people elected to government or employed in the civil service.

Similar:
government officials, civil servant, public servant, public officer, public service, official, civil service, officer, federal official, government man, more...

Opposite:
unofficial, non-official, informal, unauthorized

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Similar:
government officials, civil servant, public servant, public officer, public service, official, civil service, officer, federal official, government man, more...

Opposite:
unofficial, non-official, informal, unauthorized

Adjectives:
british, chinese, soviet, local, russian, french, american, german, spanish, japanese, corrupt

Colors:
    charcoal,     black,     gray,     white,     burgundy, more...



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