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Bureaucrats claim food if unrestrained (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

officialdom

'bureaucrats' is the definition.

'claim food if unrestrained' is the wordplay.
'unrestrained' indicates an anagram.
'claim'+'food'+'if'='claimfoodif'
'claimfoodif' is an anagram of 'OFFICIALDOM'.

(Other definitions for officialdom that I've seen before include "Bureaucracy" , "mandarins" , "Authority" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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