functionary
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ʃəˌnɛr 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.
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| —n , pl -aries | |
| 1. | a person acting in an official capacity, as for a government; an official |
| —adj | |
| 2. | functional a less common word for official |
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Functionary
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
functionary
"one who has a certain function," 1791, from Fr. fonctionnaire, a word of the Revolution; from O.Fr. function (see function).
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Example sentences
He has made a career as a blue-collar government functionary.
His father was a court functionary, who basically stole money from the treasury.
And not only that, but under the law, they can call any public functionary to declare and give them information.
Such provisions allow life-shattering determinations to be made at the unreviewable discretion of an administrative functionary.
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