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mandarinate definition

man·da·rin·ate (-āt′)

noun

  1. the office or position of a mandarin
  2. government by mandarins
    1. a governing group of mandarins
    2. any elite group

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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