functionary

Signification (Anglais)

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.
2. Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.

Concepts

fonctionnaire

cadre

Synonymes

official

officer

civil servant

bureaucrat

public servant

administrator

employee

incumbent

minister

officeholder

mandarin

🍊

public officer

ministrant

government agent

dependent

office worker

🧑‍💼

clerk

personnel

civil service

servant

white-collar

white-collar worker

government employee

dignitary

high position

government official

staff member

Traductions

funcionario

funzionario

funcionário

Funktionär

ambtenaar

beambte

Beamter

official

karmend

memûr

fermanber

wezîfedar

miwazif

erkedar

Étymologie (Anglais)

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