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

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates