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Functionary

Definition of Functionary

  • 1. A worker who holds or is invested with an office Noun

Synonyms for word "functionary"

  • official

Semanticaly linked words with "functionary"

  • apparatchik
  • appointee
  • bailiff
  • beadle
  • administrative official
  • bureaucrat
  • caretaker
  • censor
  • census taker
  • enumerator
  • church officer
  • city father
  • civil servant
  • commissar
  • political commissar
  • comptroller general
  • comptroller of the currency
  • diplomat
  • diplomatist
  • elected official
  • equerry
  • fire marshall
  • fire warden
  • forest fire fighter
  • ranger
  • hearing examiner
  • hearing officer
  • hangover
  • holdover
  • incumbent
  • officeholder
  • inquisitor
  • invalidator
  • nullifier
  • voider
  • judge
  • jurist
  • justice
  • licenser
  • mace
  • macebearer
  • macer
  • mandarin
  • notary
  • notary public
  • noticer
  • officer
  • agent
  • federal agent
  • provincial
  • postmaster general
  • proconsul
  • prosecuting attorney
  • prosecuting officer
  • prosecutor
  • public prosecutor
  • quaestor
  • recruiter
  • record-keeper
  • recorder
  • registrar
  • regulator
  • returning officer
  • sealer
  • searcher
  • skilled worker
  • skilled workman
  • trained worker
  • teller
  • vote counter
  • town clerk
  • doorkeeper
  • usher
  • vizier
  • weigher

Hyponims for word "functionary"

  • skilled worker
  • skilled workman
  • trained worker

Lexical Analysis for "functionary"

  1. function
    Verb
    derivation
    1
    1. perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function
Words Rhyme with functionary
  • ablutionary
  • abolitionary
  • accretionary
  • cautionary
  • confectionary
  • counterrevolutionary
  • deflationary
  • dictionary
  • discretionary
  • elocutionary
  • evolutionary
  • expeditionary
  • functionary
  • geostationary
  • inflationary
  • insurrectionary
Etymology for functionary
  • etymologically related functional
  • is derived from functionaries
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