officialdom

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

officialdom
    n 1: people elected or appointed to administer a government
         [syn: {government officials}, {officialdom}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

officialdom \officialdom\ n.
   The body of all people elected or appointed to administer a
   government, taken collectively.

   Syn: government officials.
        [WordNet 1.5]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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