official

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Government ministers & civil servants
aide
am
attorney general
backbencher
cabinet
first minister
Foreign Secretary
government
Home Secretary
interministerial
private member
private secretary
Privy Councillor
procurator
public servant
syndic
town clerk
undersecretary
vizier
Whitehall

functionary | Business English

functionary
noun[ C ]
 often disapproving , formaluk /ˈfʌŋkʃənəri/ us /ˈfʌŋkʃəneri/pluralfunctionaries
GOVERNMENT
a person with an official job in a government or political party, especially one whose job you do not consider to be interesting or important:
government/party functionaries

Examples of functionary

functionary
Often, the legal system (and/or its functionaries) serves as a barrier to any proper resolution of the questions surrounding the narrative and plot structure.
It would be foolhardy to suggest that affordable registration and titling will by itself restrain predatory state functionaries from encroaching on farmer rights.
In the 1930s, for example, the colony employed only 259 government functionaries (p. 169).
They can be classified as ' anonymous ' or ' proto ' functionaries since none held any specific, differentiated official position.
Federal functionaries and party cadres are also involved in shaping regional politics, not on an ad hoc basis, but on a permanent one.
They were outside of his purview as a local functionary of the colonial state.
As noted earlier, the relocation areas were selected by government functionaries without any recourse to local inhabitants' concerns or preferences.
He was merely a technical functionary acting within a broader context that established the legality of his act.
Nevertheless, such ' simple ' farmers put a lot of effort into trying to get in touch with state functionaries through intercessors and middlemen.
The idea was to move labor grievances from the streets to the courts and boardrooms under the watchful eye of state functionaries.
The anachronistic concept of 'full-time' work for instrumentalists, and probably other functionaries as well, may have to be abandoned.
This effectively left workhouse children parentless, or rather, the new poor law and its functionaries became the institutional parents of a newly created orphan class.
Conciliation officers were government functionaries who referred unsettled disputes to industrial courts for mediation, where the process could take months to settle.
At the same time, they condemned their u critics, particularly religious scholars and functionaries (ulema), for being conservative (muhafazakar), traditionalist (kudemaperest), and bigoted (mutaassib).
Other factors include explicit or implicit requirements to give bribes and gifts to, and incompetence of, government functionaries.
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