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"functionary" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone, such as an employee or official, who performs professional or clerical duties in a particular organization. For example: "The government functionaries were responsible for carrying out the policy initiatives of the Prime Minister."
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functionary
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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.
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One should recall that Dag Hammarskjold was initially perceived to be a mild-mannered Scandinavian functionary who did not even apply for the job before he was lauded as an effective internationalist.
Needing someone to run against, Mr Saleh got people to nominate a functionary from his own party as the only other candidate.
"We're already packing up," said the functionary, superfluously.Once they have stopped work, getting them to start again can be problematic.
To call someone "a little Hitler" meant he was a menial functionary who employed what power he had in order to annoy and frustrate others for his own gratification.
Again, there is no clear evidence this would work and the idea of involving yet another state functionary in child-raising will not appeal to everyone.Their third suggestion is to consolidate schools into institutions akin to "a small university campus".
Eventually it could bring a wave of much-needed private investment into oil and gas.In this section Maduro's hollow victory Oil's well that ends well The bumptious functionary Strategic patience runs out ReprintsFinancial markets reacted with a burst of enthusiasm absent for most of the year.
Once in, civil servants, from the lowest functionary to the highest offical, are unbelievably difficult to dismiss (and, believe me, there is at least one permanent secretary of a major department that some Conservatives believe should be fired for an alleged combination of incompetence and insurbodination).
Dessa moved to London to marry a British journalist, and started working for The Times, where she would stay for forty years, covering central and eastern Europe.In the 1980s she returned to Belgrade, where she watched the rise of a communist functionary called Slobodan Milosevic with growing fascination.
A long plank connects his cavernous mouth to the tail-coated, money-collecting functionary down at ground level.
"Even a pig does not foul its own sty," he said.After six years in the job he was made a functionary in Ukraine.
This is a humbler tale, of the unsung role of an incompetent functionary who helped speed an empire to its demise.Chonghou chose the right parents in life and a good era to be born.
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