Associations to the word «Functionary»

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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne