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officialdom

/əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm/

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

Noun

officialdom (countable and uncountable, plural officialdoms)

  1. The 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
    • 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
  2. (rare) The 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

officialdom meaning in Tamil and Urdu

officialdom in Tamil

அலுவல்முறை சார்ந்த

officialdom in Urdu

دفتر شاہی

Forms of officialdom

pluralofficialdoms

Origin of officialdom

From official + -dom.

Questions about officialdom

What does officialdom mean?
Officialdom means the people elected to government or employed in the civil service.
What is officialdom in Tamil?
Officialdom in Tamil is அலுவல்முறை சார்ந்த. See Officialdom meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is officialdom?
Officialdom is a noun.
How do you pronounce officialdom?
Officialdom is pronounced /əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm/.
What is the plural of officialdom?
The plural of officialdom is officialdoms.

Words near officialdom in the dictionary

  1. official passports
  2. official scorer
  3. official scorers
  4. officialate
  5. officialates
  6. officialdom
  7. officialdoms
  8. officiales
  9. officialese
  10. officialeses
  11. officialhood

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: officialdom (page history and authors); officialdom (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); officialdom (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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