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Functionary Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ary

Functionary has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a worker who holds or is invested with an office

2

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.

See Also
smallwig pensionary corporate bean counter function discretion official mortier
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
skilled worker
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
apparatchik appointee bailiff beadle bureaucrat caretaker censor census taker church officer city father civil servant commissar Comptroller General Comptroller of the Currency diplomat elected official equerry fire marshall fire warden hearing examiner holdover incumbent Inquisitor invalidator judge licenser macebearer mandarin notary noticer officeholder agent provincial postmaster general proconsul prosecutor quaestor recruiter registrar regulator returning officer sealer searcher teller town clerk usher vizier weigher
Rhyming Words
ary bary vary mary dary gary cary wary nary fary viary neary weary spary ovary snary teary hoary leary beary
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