government functionaries

collocation in English

meaningsofgovernmentandfunctionary

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government
noun
uk
/ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us
/ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/
the group of people who officially control ...
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functionary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.er.i/
a person who has official duties, especially in a government or ...
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In the 1930s, for example, the colony employed only 259 government functionaries (p. 169).
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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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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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Other factors include explicit or implicit requirements to give bribes and gifts to, and incompetence of, government functionaries.
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To him, it is not only government functionaries who pay attention to such discussions, but also the president of the state.
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Sixth, local-level (largely male) government functionaries, responsible for overseeing the recording of inheritance shares, often obstruct the implementation of laws in women's favour.
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The notes are paid in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes in return for services which are supposed to be free.
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It also discussed criminal gangs who enjoyed the patronage of politicians, of all parties, and the protection of government functionaries.
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Government functionaries continued to serve, regardless of the ruler's legitimacy or the boyar faction controlling the throne.
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He had to deal not with businessmen but with government functionaries.
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The characters he portrays are most often professional men such as lawyers or government functionaries and are frequently antagonists.
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Armed with tar and feathers, they attacked the new householders and many government functionaries.
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For the last three decades the programs are in high demand and large number of bankers, government functionaries and officials of almost 105 developing countries have benefited from the program.
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These people, like the party's supporters in general, came from a broad, though largely elite, set of backgrounds: nobles, lawyers, entrepreneurs, mearchants, bankers, military officers and government functionaries.
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Barcelona's city hall for example obliged all government functionaries to tell the proper authorities who the leftists are in your department and everything you know about their activities.
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