government officials

1. 1.

   people elected or appointed to administer a government

   Synonymsofficialdom

   Broaderadministration

   Narrowercivil servicebureaucracy

   Part ofgovernment

Questions about government officials

What does government officials mean?

government officials means "people elected or appointed to administer a government".

What is another word for government officials?

Close synonyms include officialdom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is government officials a common word?

government officials is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.