0 a loyal and senior member of a political party, especially the Communist Party in the former USSR:
To some political leaders, the results have shown the envoys to be nothing more than overrated apparatchiks who have made little difference.
Most ex-guerilla fighters are in their forties now and have become party apparatchiks.
She criticized him as a White House apparatchik who always backs the president.
The convention will be a mix of professional politicians, high-ranking party apparatchiks and ordinary voters.
We must operate with consent in a land of village apparatchiks, empire builders and local warlords.
They were surrounded by a lot of apparatchiks who had enjoyed themselves in opposition and now believed that they should be allowed to enjoy the fruits of government.
Will the party apparatchiks choose them?
He quickly learned to attend to the demanding appetites of the apparatchiks, making certain that the choicest meats and produce was delivered to them.
