functionary
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From French fonctionnaire ; by surface analysis, function + -ary .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ˈfʌŋ(k).ʃn̩.(ə)ri/
- (General American ) IPA (key): /ˈfʌŋ(k).ʃəˌnɛ.ri/
- Hyphenation: func‧tion‧ary, func‧tio‧na‧ry
Noun
[edit ]functionary (plural 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 minimal or not required.
- Near-synonyms: bureaucrat ; official ; officer ; administrator ; apparatchik
- 1987 December 10, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, "Official Secrets (Yes, Prime Minister)", in Yes, Prime Minister , season 2, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne):
- Consciences are for politicians, Bernard! We are humble functionaries whose duty it is to implement the commands of our democratically elected representatives.
- Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.
- Near-synonyms: bureaucrat , apparatchik ; paper-pusher ; bean counter
Translations
[edit ]a person employed as an official in a bureaucracy
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: məmur (az)
- Bulgarian: функционе́р (bg) m (funkcionér), длъ́жностно лице́ n (dlǎ́žnostno licé)
- Catalan: funcionari (ca) m, funcionària (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: functionaris (nl) m
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: virkailija (fi)
- French: fonctionnaire (fr) m or f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Funktionär (de) m, Funktionärin (de) f
- Greek: λειτουργός (el) m or f (leitourgós)
- Hungarian: funkcionárius (hu) , közhivatalnok (hu) , tisztviselő (hu)
- Indonesian: fungsionaris (id)
- Italian: funzionario (it) m
- Japanese: 役人 (ja) (やくにん, yakunin), 公務員 (ja) (こうむいん, kōmuin)
- Kazakh: атқарымпаз (atqarympaz)
- Korean: 공무원(公務員) (ko) (gongmuwon)
- Macedonian: функционе́р m (funkcionér), слу́жбеник m (slúžbenik)
- Polish: funkcjonariusz (pl) m, funkcjonariuszka (pl) f
- Portuguese: funcionário (pt) m, funcionária (pt) f
- Romanian: funcționar (ro) m, funcționară (ro) f
- Russian: чино́вник (ru) m (činóvnik), чино́вница (ru) f (činóvnica), должностно́е лицо́ (ru) n (dolžnostnóje licó), официа́льное лицо́ n (oficiálʹnoje licó), функционе́р (ru) m (funkcionér)
- Spanish: funcionario (es) , funcionaria
- Swedish: statstjänsteman c, ämbetsman (sv) c
- Ukrainian: функціоне́р m (funkcionér), функціоне́рка f (funkcionérka)