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officialdom
CIDE DICTIONARY
officialdom, n.
The body of all people elected or appointed to administer a government, taken collectively. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
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 brassFor further exploring for "officialdom" in Webster Dictionary Online