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From French fonctionnaire; by surface analysis, function + -ary.
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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
- 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
a person employed as an official in a bureaucracy
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: məmur (az)
- Bulgarian: функционер (bg) m (funkcioner), длъжностно лице n (dlǎžnostno lice)
- Catalan: funcionari (ca) m, funcionària (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 官員 / 官员 (zh) (guānyuán), 公務員 / 公务员 (zh) (gōngwùyuán)
- 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) sg, közhivatalnok (hu) sg, tisztviselő (hu) sg
- 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)
- Macedonian: функционе́р m (funkcionér), слу́жбеник m (slúžbenik)
- Polish: funkcjonariusz (pl) m, funkcjonariuszka (pl) f
- Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
- 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)
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