chinovnik
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian чиновник (činovnik).
Noun
[edit]chinovnik (plural chinovniks)
- A bureaucrat in the Tsarist Russian government.
- 1998, Nikolai Bukharin, How It All Began: The Prison Novel, page 50:
- Ivan Antonych was probably the only one of the Russian chinovniks in Byeltsy who spoke with the Jewish representatives in a humane way and did not show any favoritism toward the Russian element.