Apparatchik
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɑːpəˈɹɑːt͡ʃɪk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Apparatchik is a noun meaning (by extension) A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
Meaning
(by extension) A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
More Meanings
- (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
Example Sentences
In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.
“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.
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.
Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. […] He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik.
Word Forms
- apparatchiks
- apparatchiki
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bureaucracies, bureaucrats, mandarins, apparat, chinovnik, praporshchik.
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