Functionary

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  • noun. One who holds an office or a trust or performs a particular function; an official.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who holds an office or a trust: as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One charged with the performance of a function or office
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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 not required.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a worker who holds or is invested with an office
    • Word Usage
    "A government functionary is going to make rules about what you can get and what you can't!"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    skilled worker  skilled workman  trained worker  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    administrative official  agent  apparatchik  appointee  bailiff  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    accountant  administrator  adviser  bureaucrat  chaplain  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Federal  agent  amanuensis  baggage agent  bureaucrat  
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