EGAVE

functionary

About 0.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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 minimal or not required.
  2. noun Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.

Similar words

official employee officer servant functional function federal official office work public officer officiate

Often followed by

of in who was to and is or had

Word family

functionaries

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