0 used to refer to those people who have a position of authority, especially in government, usually when they are preventing you from doing what you want to do or are slow or not effective
1 used to refer to people who have a position of authority, especially in a government, usually when they are preventing you from doing what you want to do, or are slow or not effective:
They accused regulatory officialdom of hampering their business by imposing too many petty conditions.
Officialdom sometimes gets away with things rather too easily.
They are in many ways without any rights; there is a real sense of helplessness when faced with officialdom and official policy.
In the world today accumulations of power, whether commercial power or the power of officialdom, are increasing.
The truth is that manufacturing industry probably suffers more from regulation, not by desire of officialdom or governments, but by dint of history itself.
Bureaucracy and officialdom would lead to those instruments being totally unused for one simple and intuitive reason.
He was unlucky in climbing the ladder of officialdom on the one hand but on the other he could afford to remain outside the most powerful enterprise of all.
Officialdom was obliged and supposed to be virtuous, to set an example to inferiors, but to be above the laws for ordinary subjects.
What was the social impact of the spread of print, particularly as texts were disseminated to levels of the population outside the ranks of officialdom and the highest scholar-elite?
