The Clue
Powerful bureaucrats (9 letter answer)
The Answer
MANDARINS
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Notes
The answer MANDARINS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Definition
MANDARIN as a noun:
1. (mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata) = shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia
2. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
3. any high government official or bureaucrat
4. a high public official of imperial China
5. (mandarin, mandarin orange) = a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
6. (Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect) = the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China