officialdom in English

noun

[of'fi·cial·dom || ə'fɪʃldəm]

(Informal) collective body of clerks, bureaucracy (especially of bureaucracy that is annoying or inefficient)

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1. This is a classic example of the killjoy attitudes of officialdom.

2. 19 Tired of traffic, incorporation spats, breezy officialdom and the dead office air?

3. Little authority was left for traditional officialdom, and government affairs were handled through the Fujiwara family's private administration.

4. Government, officials, authorities, administration, ministry, the system, civil service, directorate, officialdom, corridors of power State Bureaucracies tend to stifle enterprise and initiative

5. Government, officials, authorities, administration, ministry, the system, civil service, directorate, officialdom, corridors of power State Bureaucracies tend to stifle enterprise and initiative

6. [Evening Standard] Over the Aeons there have been any number of ingenious tricks played by Australian officialdom to stem the tide of human traffic

7. As a lecher and a businessman who did not act his part, the life of Ximen Qing was closely connected with women and officialdom and his soul was best displayed in dealing with them.

8. Because Tugh Temür's accession was so transparently illegitimate, it was more important for his regime than for any previous reign to rely on liberal enfeoffments and generous awards to rally support from the nobility and officialdom.

9. Bureaucracy (n.) "government by bureaus," especially "tyrannical officialdom," excessive multiplication of administrative bureaus and concentration of power in them, in reference to their tendency to interfere in private matters and be inefficient and inflexible, 1818, from French bureaucratie, coined by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) on model of democratie