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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun functionary has 1 sense

• functionary(n = noun.person) official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office; Array
has particulars: 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, officeholder, 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, teller, vote counter, town clerk, doorkeeper, usher, vizier, weigher
is a kind of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
Derived form verb function₃

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THESAURUS

functionary

Federal, agent, amanuensis, baggage agent, bureaucrat, business agent, civil servant, claim agent, clerk, commercial agent, commission agent, commissioner, conductor, consignee, customer agent, driver, dupe, engineer, factor, fed, federal agent, freight agent, functionnaire, general agent, handler, implement, instrument, insurance agent, jack-in-office, land agent, law agent, literary agent, loan agent, mandarin, manipulator, news agent, office-bearer, officeholder, officer, official, officiary, operant, operative, operator, parliamentary agent, passenger agent, petty tyrant, pilot, placeman, press agent, public official, public servant, puppet, purchasing agent, real estate agent, red-tapist, runner, sales agent, secretary, special agent, station agent, steersman, steward, theatrical agent, ticket agent, tool, travel agent, walking delegate

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Director

N director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller, superintendent, supervisor, straw boss, intendant, overseer, overlooker, supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile, moderator, monitor, taskmaster, master, leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator, caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy, guiding star, adviser, guide, pilot, helmsman, steersman, steermate, wire-puller, driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer, coachman, carman, cabman, postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster, whipper in, head, head man, head center, boss, principal, president, speaker, chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, captain, superior, mayor, vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch, officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat, man in office, Jack in office, office bearer, person in authority, statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger, Minos, Draco, arbiter, boss, political dictator, board, secretary, secretary of state, Reis Effendi, vicar, steward, factor, agent, bailiff, middleman, foreman, clerk of works, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier, proctor, procurator, ex officio.

Consignee

N consignee, trustee, nominee, committee, agent, delegate, commissary, commissioner, emissary, envoy, commissionaire, messenger, diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique, embassy, ambassador, embassador, representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio, charge d'affaires, attache, vicegerent, plenipotentiary, functionary, placeman, curator, treasurer, factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business, factotum, caretaker, dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta, negotiator, go-between, middleman, under agent, employe, servant, referee, arbitrator, traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur, touter, commercial traveler, drummer, traveling man, newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.

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