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单词 functionary
释义
functionary
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.er.i/
apersonwho hasofficialduties,especiallyin agovernmentorpoliticalparty:
（尤指政府机关或政党的）工作人员，公务员
Thevisitorsweremetby a functionary whoescortedthem to the director'soffice.来访者由一位工作人员迎接并送至局长办公室。
agovernmentfunctionary政府公务员
Synonym
official
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Government ministers & civil servants
  • aide
  • am
  • attorney general
  • backbencher
  • cabinet
  • Foreign Secretary
  • government
  • Home Secretary
  • interministerial
  • kitchen cabinet
  • private secretary
  • Privy Councillor
  • procurator
  • public servant
  • secretary
  • syndic
  • town clerk
  • undersecretary
  • vizier
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(Definition offunctionaryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

functionary| Business English

functionary
noun[C]
oftendisapproving,formal
uk
/ˈfʌŋkʃənəri/us
/ˈfʌŋkʃəneri/
pluralfunctionaries
GOVERNMENT
apersonwith anofficialjobin agovernmentorpoliticalparty,especiallyone whosejobyou do notconsiderto beinterestingorimportant:
government/partyfunctionaries
(Definition offunctionaryfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffunctionary

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Often, the legal system (and/or its functionaries) serves as a barrier to any proper resolution of the questions surrounding the narrative and plot structure.
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It would be foolhardy to suggest that affordable registration and titling will by itself restrain predatory state functionaries from encroaching on farmer rights.
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In the 1930s, for example, the colony employed only 259 government functionaries (p. 169).
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They can be classified as ' anonymous ' or ' proto ' functionaries since none held any specific, differentiated official position.
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Federal functionaries and party cadres are also involved in shaping regional politics, not on an ad hoc basis, but on a permanent one.
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They were outside of his purview as a localfunctionaryof the colonial state.
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As noted earlier, the relocation areas were selected by government functionaries without any recourse to local inhabitants' concerns or preferences.
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He was merely a technicalfunctionaryacting within a broader context that established the legality of his act.
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Nevertheless, such ' simple ' farmers put a lot of effort into trying to get in touch with state functionaries through intercessors and middlemen.
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The idea was to move labor grievances from the streets to the courts and boardrooms under the watchful eye of state functionaries.
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The anachronistic concept of 'full-time' work for instrumentalists, and probably other functionaries as well, may have to be abandoned.
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This effectively left workhouse children parentless, or rather, the new poor law and its functionaries became the institutional parents of a newly created orphan class.
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Conciliation officers were government functionaries who referred unsettled disputes to industrial courts for mediation, where the process could take months to settle.
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At the same time, they condemned their u critics, particularly religious scholars and functionaries (ulema), for being conservative (muhafazakar), traditionalist (kudemaperest), and bigoted (mutaassib).
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Other factors include explicit or implicit requirements to give bribes and gifts to, and incompetence of, government functionaries.
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