0 a person who has official duties, especially in a government or political party -- （尤指政府机关或政党的）工作人员，公务员
The visitors were met by a functionary who escorted them to the director's office. 来访者由一位工作人员迎接并送至局长办公室。
a government functionary 政府公务员
Other factors include explicit or implicit requirements to give bribes and gifts to, and incompetence of, government functionaries.
They can be classified as ' anonymous ' or ' proto ' functionaries since none held any specific, differentiated official position.
It would be foolhardy to suggest that affordable registration and titling will by itself restrain predatory state functionaries from encroaching on farmer rights.
He is said to be against the self aggrandisement of lawyers and state functionaries, but to believe that 'society' will keep these in check.
But it should, at the least, be strong enough to direct functionaries whose responsibility it is to implement solutions to the problems of the land.
Federal functionaries and party cadres are also involved in shaping regional politics, not on an ad hoc basis, but on a permanent one.
The main impression is of a cross between a gangster and some kind of state functionary.
They were outside of his purview as a local functionary of the colonial state.
