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functionary::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Traditionally, the ensi was the highest functionary of the Sumerian city-states.
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He then attempted and succeeded in building a career as a communist functionary.
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My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
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What South Gloucestershire Council functionary had that bright idea for planning.
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It was an extraordinary position to be in for a mid-level government functionary.
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They are, however, aware of his eldest son, Kim Jong II, 36, a party functionary.
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Child's chief antagonist is a snippy functionary at the Cordon Bleu cooking school.
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The Chairman's domicile was modest, like that of a middle-level functionary.
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From 1920 onwards, Arnold worked as functionary of the movement of Christian workers.
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- Official: a worker who holds or is invested with an office
- An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either his own or that of his superior and/or employer, public or legally private).
- 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 not required
- The functionary dominates the apparatus through controlling its exterior (input and output), and is in turn dominated by the opacity of its interior. In other words, functionaries are people who dominate a game for which they are not competent. Kafka.
