apparatchik
noun/ɑːpəˈɹɑːt͡ʃɪk/UK/æpəˈɹæt͡ʃɪk/US
Etymology
From Russian аппара́тчик (apparátčik, “operator, apparatchik”), from аппара́т (apparát, “apparat, apparatus (of state)”) + suffix -чик (-čik).
- borrowed from аппара́тчик
Definitions
A member of the Soviet apparat
A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
- In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.
A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
- He's so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik, that Prime Minister Brown decides he can't send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush.
- “Does France, a founder member of the EU, really want to be the country that sends the biggest battalion of far-right apparatchiks to the European parliament?” [Gabriel] Attal asked.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA