0 a person who has official duties, especially in a government or political party:
The visitors were met by a functionary who escorted them to the director's office.
a government functionary
1 a person with an official job in a government or political party, especially one whose job you do not consider to be interesting or important:
government/party functionaries
Often, the legal system (and/or its functionaries) serves as a barrier to any proper resolution of the questions surrounding the narrative and plot structure.
It would be foolhardy to suggest that affordable registration and titling will by itself restrain predatory state functionaries from encroaching on farmer rights.
In the 1930s, for example, the colony employed only 259 government functionaries (p. 169).
They can be classified as ' anonymous ' or ' proto ' functionaries since none held any specific, differentiated official position.
Federal functionaries and party cadres are also involved in shaping regional politics, not on an ad hoc basis, but on a permanent one.
They were outside of his purview as a local functionary of the colonial state.
As noted earlier, the relocation areas were selected by government functionaries without any recourse to local inhabitants' concerns or preferences.
He was merely a technical functionary acting within a broader context that established the legality of his act.
