functionary

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfʌŋ(k).ʃn̩.(ə)ri/    美 /ˈfʌŋ(k).ʃəˌnɛ.ri/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
  2. 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

词形变化

functionaries plural

词源

From French fonctionnaire; by surface analysis, function + -ary.
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