Functionaries

Word FUNCTIONARIES
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Definitions and meanings of "Functionaries"

What do we mean by functionaries?

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.

A paper-pusher, bean counter.

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The word "functionaries" in example sentences

Third is star power, much of whose enchantments in public life would be diminished once a higher proportion of long-term functionaries, rather than political appointees, is routinely assigned to key offices. ❋ Derek Leebaert (2010)

Often, the interface between the ministers and their bureaucrat functionaries is a dead letter office. ❋ Unknown (2000)

He might as well have said, “Read my lips, no new taxes!”, and now his functionaries are arguing that the Constitutionality of the new legislation rests upon its status as atax. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Deputies from Hungary's governing Fidesz party say they favor imposing a "reparations tax" on the pensions of thousands of former functionaries from the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party - which ran the country during most of the communist regime ending in 1990. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Proposition six picks up where the previous one left off, emphasizing that the fourth, fifth and sixth days in Genesis 1 are about the installation of "functionaries". ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

The Statesman's reporter wrote that his entry to the festivities was barred, and that "functionaries" even broke up his hallway interviews. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Democratic Change (MDC) party, is reported to have accused the longtime Zimbabwean leader of turning members of the armed forces and the feared Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) into ruling party "functionaries". ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Constitution required "functionaries" who exercised power in terms of the country's supreme law to assist and protect the auditor-general and ensure his independence, impartiality, dignity and effectiveness. ❋ Unknown (1997)

He could have replied that the Party had conducted a night school for African workers and that some of the best "functionaries," like Kotane, Makabeni, and Nkosi, had been trained in that school. ❋ Roux, Edward (1943)

Special day schools for "functionaries" were to be held from time to time. ❋ Roux, Edward (1943)

This truce between the culprit and the functionaries was a feast based on change as peace in the name and slogan of accord based on principality of talibanic version of Islam "The shariah of Taliban and Nizam-e-Adal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As we walked up the parking ramp, out of the reeking underground city, we ran into Hezbollah functionaries on their way down. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

This faction also includes Party functionaries and rural leaders. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But there are so many asshat politicians, functionaries who are whoring with the media cartels instead of serving those who put them into power in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We saw recently how "Communist" China treated a little girl whose looks did not, in the functionaries 'opinion, match her voice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Run your hat through an X-ray machine by all means, show your ID half a dozen times to various functionaries, package your eyedrops in little baggies, trot through a metal-detecting doorway, but let's have the government tell these people to back off at this point. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Times, quoting several people briefed on the arrests, says the raids targeted a wide range of suspects, from small-time bookmakers and crime-family functionaries to a number of senior Mob figures and several corrupt union officials, according to several people briefed on the arrests. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Imagine, if you will, a grey committee room somewhere in a grey government office building where a couple of low-level functionaries are drafting a briefing note for Parliament. ❋ Alison (2010)

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