0 a person who has official duties, especially in a government or political party: --
a government functionary
The visitors were met by a functionary who escorted them to the director's office.
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
Other factors include explicit or implicit requirements to give bribes and gifts to, and incompetence of, government functionaries.
At the same time, they condemned their u critics, particularly religious scholars and functionaries (ulema), for being conservative (muhafazakar), traditionalist (kudemaperest), and bigoted (mutaassib).
Conciliation officers were government functionaries who referred unsettled disputes to industrial courts for mediation, where the process could take months to settle.
This effectively left workhouse children parentless, or rather, the new poor law and its functionaries became the institutional parents of a newly created orphan class.
The anachronistic concept of 'full-time' work for instrumentalists, and probably other functionaries as well, may have to be abandoned.
The idea was to move labor grievances from the streets to the courts and boardrooms under the watchful eye of state functionaries.
Nevertheless, such ' simple ' farmers put a lot of effort into trying to get in touch with state functionaries through intercessors and middlemen.
He was merely a technical functionary acting within a broader context that established the legality of his act.
