functionary

English

Etymology

From French fonctionnaire.

Noun

functionary (plural functionaries)

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.
A paper-pusher, bean counter.

Translations

a person employed as an official in a bureaucracy

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: məmur (az)
Bulgarian: функционер (bg) m (funkcioner), длъжностно лице n (dlǎžnostno lice)
Catalan: funcionari (ca) m, funcionària (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 官員／官员 (zh) (guānyuán), 公務員／公务员 (zh) (gōngwùyuán)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: functionaris (nl) m
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: virkailija (fi)
French: fonctionnaire (fr) m or f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Funktionär (de) m, Funktionärin (de) f
Greek: λειτουργός (el) m or f (leitourgós)
Hungarian: funkcionárius (hu) sg, közhivatalnok (hu) sg, tisztviselő (hu) sg
Indonesian: fungsionaris (id)
Italian: funzionario (it) m
Japanese: 役人 (ja) (やくにん, yakunin), 公務員 (ja) (こうむいん, kōmuin)
Kazakh: атқарымпаз (atqarympaz)
Macedonian: функционе́р m (funkcionér), слу́жбеник m (slúžbenik)
Polish: funkcjonariusz (pl) m, funkcjonariuszka (pl) f
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: funcționar (ro) m, funcționară (ro) f
Russian: чино́вник (ru) m (činóvnik), чино́вница (ru) f (činóvnica), должностно́е лицо́ (ru) n (dolžnostnóje licó), официа́льное лицо́ n (oficiálʹnoje licó), функционе́р (ru) m (funkcionér)
Spanish: funcionario (es), funcionaria
Swedish: statstjänsteman c, ämbetsman (sv) c
Ukrainian: функціоне́р m (funkcionér), функціоне́рка f (funkcionérka)

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