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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Russian аппара́тчик (apparátčik, “operator, apparatchik”), from аппара́т (apparát, “apparat, apparatus (of state)”) + suffix -чик (-čik).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]apparatchik (plural apparatchiks or apparatchiki)
- (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent. [from 20th c.]
- 1965 February 12, “Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists”, in Time[1], volume 85, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 March 2009:
- Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.
- (by extension) A blindly loyal bureaucrat. [from 20th c.]
- 2007 April 20, “Gonzales v. Gonzales”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. […] He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik.
- 2011 February 27, Peter Preston, “The Unfinished Global Revolution by Mark Malloch Brown – review”, in The Observer[3], →ISSN:
- He's so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik, that Prime Minister Brown decides he can't send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush.
- 2024 June 7, Angelique Chrisafis, quoting Gabriel Attal, “‘You can feel a shift’: will the French be lured by Le Pen?”, in The Guardian[4], →ISSN:
- “Does France, a founder member of the EU, really want to be the country that sends the biggest battalion of far-right apparatchiks to the European parliament?” [Gabriel] Attal asked.
Translations
[edit]member of a Communist apparat
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blindly loyal bureaucrat
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[edit]apparatchik m (plural apparatchiks)
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[edit]Noun
[edit]apparatchik m (plural apparatchiks)
- (historical) apparatchik (Communist bureaucrat or agent)
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