GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does government officials mean? 

• GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS (noun)
  The noun GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS has 1 sense:

1. people elected or appointed to administer a government

  Familiarity information: GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People elected or appointed to administer a government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

government officials; officialdom

Hypernyms ("government officials" is a kind of...):

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "government officials"):

civil service (government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations)

bureaucracy; bureaucratism (nonelective government officials)

Holonyms ("government officials" is a member of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

 Context examples 

The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top government officials are buried.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)