Associations to the word «Functionary»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
FUNCTIONARY, noun. 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.
Dictionary definition
FUNCTIONARY, noun. A worker who holds or is invested with an office.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.