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functionary

[ fuhngk-shuh-ner-ee ]

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noun

, plural func·tion·ar·ies.

a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official:
civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.

functionary

/ ˈfʌŋkʃənərɪ /

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1785–95; function + -ary, modeled on French fonctionnaire

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Those warfighting functionary things that we’re putting on it are what really matter, are really going to change the battlefield.

They are what college sports are about — not these greedy-mean functionaries lining up at their convention buffets.

A few days later, a studio functionary called to say the offices were to be vacated.

But once he had been identified as a U.S. government functionary, our government ensured that Davis was treated with courtesy.

At which Spitzer laughingly called out to the departing functionary, “Hey, can you come back?”

That was the official line, though one man later confessed he was a minor party functionary and was sacked.

Unknown to his neighbors, John Greaney was not the gray-faced government functionary he appeared to be.

The stranger regarded Hedges attentively, rather to the discomfiture of that functionary, who thought he was doubted.

On glancing at the address, the parochial functionary observed that it contained no name.

Algernon relied on Mr. Gibbs, he said, and made himself very pleasant in his dealings with that functionary.

A door slammed at the rear upon the retreating German, whom this superior functionary had dispatched about his business.

And I may add that the baby in arms was rarely trusted to this functionary, except for airings in the garden under my eye.

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