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" I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries."
Fritz Sauckel

Meaning of "functionaries" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF FUNCTIONARIES

functionaries


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FUNCTIONARIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Functionaries is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FUNCTIONARIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Official

Also a "public official". An official is someone who holds an office in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority. A government official or functionary is an official who is involved in public administration or government, through either election, appointment, selection, or employment. A bureaucrat or civil servant is a member of the bureaucracy. An elected official is a person who is an official by virtue of an election. Officials may also be appointed ex officio. Some official positions may be inherited. A person who currently holds an office is referred to as an incumbent. The word official as a noun has been recorded since the Middle English period, first seen in 1314. It comes from the Old French official, from the Latin officialis, the noun use of the original adjective officialis from officium. The meaning "person in charge of some public work or duty" was first recorded in 1555. The adjective is first attested in English in 1533, via the Old French oficial. The informal term officialese, the jargon of "officialdom", was first recorded in 1884.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FUNCTIONARIES

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WORDS THAT END LIKE FUNCTIONARIES

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Synonyms and antonyms of functionaries in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FUNCTIONARIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «functionaries» and belong to the same grammatical category.
dignitary · employee · office bearer · officer · official

Translation of «functionaries» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FUNCTIONARIES

Find out the translation of functionaries to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of functionaries from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «functionaries» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

工作人员
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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funcionarios
570 millions of speakers
en

English

functionaries
510 millions of speakers
hi

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पदाधिकारियों
380 millions of speakers
ar

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الموظفين
280 millions of speakers
ru

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функционеры
278 millions of speakers
pt

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funcionários
270 millions of speakers
bn

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কর্মচারী
260 millions of speakers
fr

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fonctionnaires
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Fasilitator
190 millions of speakers
de

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Funktionäre
180 millions of speakers
ja

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役人
130 millions of speakers
ko

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functionaries
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Fungsi
85 millions of speakers
vi

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chức
80 millions of speakers
ta

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அலுவலர்கள்
75 millions of speakers
mr

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कार्यकर्ते
75 millions of speakers
tr

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görevliler
70 millions of speakers
it

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funzionari
65 millions of speakers
pl

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funkcjonariusze
50 millions of speakers
uk

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функціонери
40 millions of speakers
ro

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funcționari
30 millions of speakers
el

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λειτουργοί
15 millions of speakers
af

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funksionarisse
14 millions of speakers
sv

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function
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

funksjonærer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of functionaries

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FUNCTIONARIES»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about functionaries

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2 QUOTES WITH «FUNCTIONARIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word functionaries.
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Jose Saramago
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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Fritz Sauckel
I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUNCTIONARIES»

Discover the use of functionaries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to functionaries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Functionaries: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Familiar Quotations FunctionariesIf parties in a republic are necessary to secure a degree of vigilance to keep the public functionaries within the bounds of law and duty, at that point their usefulness ends.ndash;William HarrisonCorrupt, ...
‎2008
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Handbook of Administrative History:
Weber distinguishes collegial administration through honorary and accumulated office from monocratic administration through educated and individual functionaries (Weber 1980: 562). He speaks of monocratic administration when the ...
Jos C. N. Raadschelders, 2000
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Constitutional Law in Greece
Judicial functionaries shall be prohibited from performing any other salaried service or practicing any other profession. **2. Exceptionally, judicial functionaries may be elected members of the Athens Academy or teaching staff of university ...
Philippos K. Spyropoulos, Théodore Fortsakis, 2009
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The welfare industry: functionaries and recipients in public aid
Takes sociological stock of American poverty and the efforts at reform in the 1960s and early 70s, focusing on urban public assistance and on efforts to improve the system -- particularly efforts that were pursued in the name of poor ...
David Street, George T. Martin, Laura K. Gordon, 1979
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Managing and Developing New Forms of Work Organisation
To develop an alternative approach, the personnel functionaries will need to attach significance to atti- tudinal structuring and intra-organisational bargaining dynamics in a different way. It is possible to utilise the psychological gains derived ...
George Kanawaty, 1981
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Communist China 1955-1959: Policy Documents with Analysis
nection with the Party's work relating to its functionaries. On this question there are certain confused viewpoints which must be clarified. In the early stage of the liberation, the Central Committee brought forward the policy of reliance on the ...
‎1962
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The Unwelcome One: Returning Home from Auschwitz
Prisoner-functionaries (Funktionshäftlinge) Prisoner-functionaries were camp inmates chosen by the SS to carry out specific tasks. They included senior camp prisoners (Lagerältesten), block chiefs (Blockäl- testen), camp scribes or clerks ...
Hans Frankenthal, 2002
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Preparing Educators to Involve Families: From Theory to Practice
For example, schools act as children's executive functionaries when they institute schedules to organize children's time and activities. Similarly, families act as executive functionaries when they establish procedures for managing the tasks ...
Heather B. Weiss, 2005
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Power And Society In The Gdr, 1961-1979: The 'Normalisation ...
to enable an understanding of the cultural model of the SED.12 To a limited extent, the efforts to qualify and educate cultural functionaries showed some effects, but only among those functionaries who worked in the upper echelons of the ...
Mary Fulbrook, 2013
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Revenue and General Administration in Rajasthan: ...
On public administration and public institutions in Rajasthan.
Rajni Goyal, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUNCTIONARIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term functionaries is used in the context of the following news items.
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Most inept Aquino functionary now campaigning for Senate seat
OF ALL the despicable functionaries of the Aquino administration, the most notoriously inept seems to be Metropolitan Manila Development ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
2
Several revenue officials transferred in J-K
He said that the revenue minister initiated the step after it was brought to his notice that a nexus existed between the field functionaries of the ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
3
FM dismisses reports on phone tapping equipment
... the government relating to tapping of phones of key functionaries in the Government including Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu himself. «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Saffron big three to decide Shivraj Singh Chouhan's fate
Party insiders said while the programme and visit of senior functionaries was planned much in advance, this of has come at a time when ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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The Stacks: A DEA Agent at War with the War on Drugs
They like his rap about “suits” who are masters of phony outrage, “functionaries sexually fascinated by manuals.” Young people support any ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
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Mass Poaching Drive to Saffronise Red Bastions
The main goal of 'Operation Red' is to woo key Left functionaries of the Branch Committees, Local Committees and Area Committees. «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
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Congress blames AAP, BJP for water-logging
The party was also attended by party's Delhi unit minority cell office-bearers and functionaries. (With agency inputs). alt text. ×. Your Rating:. «onmanorama, Jul 15»
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Kerala to pay tributes to Shaikh Zainuddin Makhdoom
The series of seminar will start after Ramadan, functionaries of the MIRD said. Dr. KKN Kurup, Calicut University former chairman and one of ... «TwoCircles.net, Jul 15»
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Himachal allots Rs.414 crore for panchayats
The Panchayati Raj institutions' functionaries have been imparted training to make them efficient in using these applications. Under this project ... «Big News Network.com, Jul 15»
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Published on Jul 11, 2015, 10:00 pm AST
You're going to attract party functionaries as we have seen in the past few years,” he said. “I think regardless of politics, who wins the elections ... «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
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