OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 42891

functionary

/ˈfʌŋ(k).ʃn̩.(ə)ri/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
funcionaria • funcionario
A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required.
Consciences are for politicians, Bernard! We are humble functionaries whose duty it is to implement the commands of our democratically elected representatives.
Near-synonyms: bureaucrat; official; officer; administrator; apparatchik
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