Definition of "government officials" []

• People elected or appointed to administer a government (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Qutb was executed in 1966, but he would profoundly influence the young Ayman al-Zawahiri, who set up a jihadist cell when he was only fifteen dedicated to the Qutbian theory that Egyptian government officials were apostates from Islam and therefore deserved death."
• "So microlevel investigations of the diffusion of technological innovations among villagers were of direct relevance to development planners and to other government officials in developing nations."
• "Second, we held an annual policy forum at a different location around the world—Niagara-on-the-Lake in Canada, Como in Italy, Acapulco in Mexico—to present our findings to senior executives and government officials from the sponsoring companies and governments, plus interested observers from labor unions and the financial community."