Usually means: Official performing duties in organization.
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  1. functionary: Merriam-Webster
  2. functionary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. functionary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. functionary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. functionary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Functionary, functionary: Wordnik
  7. functionary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. functionary: Wiktionary
  9. functionary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. functionary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. functionary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Functionary, functionary: Dictionary.com
  13. Functionary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Functionary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. functionary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. functionary: Rhymezone
  17. Functionary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. functionary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. functionary: FreeDictionary.org
  20. functionary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. functionary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. functionary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. functionary: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. functionary: Medical dictionary

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

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official, function, federal official, office work, public officer, officiate, public servant, office, underofficial, warden, more...

Types:
bureaucrat, clerk, apparatchik, pen pusher, paper shuffler, becounter, more...

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Prisoner functionary, public functionary, more...

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public, high, important, religious, minor, chief, civil, communist, mere, local, judicial

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Similar:
official, function, federal official, office work, public officer, officiate, public servant, office, underofficial, warden, more...

Types:
bureaucrat, clerk, apparatchik, pen pusher, paper shuffler, becounter, more...

Phrases:
Prisoner functionary, public functionary, more...

Adjectives:
public, high, important, religious, minor, chief, civil, communist, mere, local, judicial

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     olive,     taupe, more...



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