[Magazine staffer:] In the bag may be the next chief—a wedding to one of officialdom's family will assure certainty.
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Officialdom
//əˈfɪ.ʃəl.dəm//
Synonyms for "officialdom" (37 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
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6 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- чиновничество noun (The people elected to government or employed in the civil service)
French
1 entries- fonctionnariat noun (The people elected to government or employed in the civil service)
Georgian
1 entries- ჩინოვნიკობა noun (The people elected to government or employed in the civil service)
Korean
2 entries- 관직 noun (The people elected to government or employed in the civil service)
- 벼슬 noun (The people elected to government or employed in the civil service)
Russian
1 entries- чиновничество noun (The people elected to government or employed in the civil service)
Sample sentences
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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.
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An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.
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This was largely due to its widespread use in the army and officialdom in the Ottoman Empire.
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