PGOgovernment departments or the people who work in them – used when you think they are not helpful 官场;官僚〔含贬义〕 → bureaucracy
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officialdom• And officialdom shows disturbing signs of believing the flattery.• Tired of traffic, incorporation spats, breezyofficialdom and the deadoffice air?• Why do we have to be so humiliated by officialdom?• Mr Ueberroth got still less help from officialdom.• He had seen this aspect of officialdom before.• They like to see officialdom and the upper classes getting a kick up the backside.• Dealing with Sovietofficialdom one became used to surprises.• It would simply mean that officialdom, and his country, had forgiven him.