Meaning & use
Apparatchik
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A loyal official or functionary within a large bureaucratic organization, especially one who follows orders without question.
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The novel satirizes the apparatchiks who kept the failing regime running.
Critics dismissed him as just another corporate apparatchik pushing paperwork.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Russian, where it originally referred to a full-time official of the Communist Party apparatus.
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