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bureaucrat; civil servant; officer; official; functionary; limpet; man of office; ephor (в современной Греции); office-holder; pen-pusher; customs officer; officiary; office bearer (Anglophile); paper-pusher (Alexander Demidov); government official (MargeWebley); public official (Telecaster); office holder; public servant (Andrey250780); government servant (to punish oppressive, arbitrary or unconstitutional acts by government servants. LE2 Alexander Demidov); apparatchik (an official who works for a government or other organization and who obeys orders without thinking: * In others Communist apparatchiks remade themselves as nationalist autocrats, and stifled democracy in its crib. * It is also very hard for apparatchiks at the grassroots of the party to understand. * Sophiatown itself-erased by the brutal apparatchiks of apartheid in 1955-is as much the protagonist as the suit. * The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik. * The key date for seasoned party apparatchiks, however, is today. * The offices were small, and apparatchiks scuttled round between rooms. * The Praga became a favoured haunt for upwardly mobile apparatchiks, visiting VIPs and wedding parties. * When an apparatchik dies, his family can request a plot in one of several Moscow cemeteries informally reserved for the elite. LDCE Alexander Demidov); placeman; clerk; administrator; pen pusher; government bureaucrat (Mikhail.Brodsky) |
