functionary

Noun

Meaning

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

official secretary minister commissioner mandarin proctor comptroller director manager assistant politician attorney clerk deputy factor
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Antonyms

manager enemy opposition opponent employee attacker
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Hypernyms

skilled worker skilled workman trained worker

Hyponyms

secretary ranger inquisitor mandarin registrar beadle

Phrases with the word

petty functionary

Derivatives

functionaries

Examples

As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press. Leonid Brezhnev

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. Georges Clemenceau

A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason. Paul Johnson

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. Ambrose Bierce

The "requirements," indeed, force the teacher - and administrator - into the role of an authoritarian functionary whose primary task becomes that of enforcing the requirements rather than helping the learner to learn. Neil Postman

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. Sebastian Pinera

Close letter words and terms

functionally functionally complete functionally illiterate functionate functionhood functioning