apparatchik

• Substantiv, das einen Funktionär oder Beamten innerhalb einer großen Organisation bezeichnet, besonders in einer politischen Partei; oft humorvoll oder abwertend verwendet; historisch auch für einen Angehörigen des administrativen Apparats der kommunistischen Partei.

A noun referring to an official or functionary within a large organization, especially a political one, often used humorously or derogatorily; also historically denotes a member of the administrative system of a communist party.

1. Communist Party officialC2formalpolitical

   A member of the administrative system of a communist party, especially in the former Soviet Union.

   Parteifunktionär

   • The old apparatchik enforced party discipline without question.
   • Many apparatchiks rose through the ranks of the Soviet bureaucracy.
   • He was a loyal apparatchik who followed every directive from Moscow.

   Synonymebureaucratcadrefunctionaryofficial

2. Bureaucratic officialC2informalpolitical

   A humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization, especially a political one, who blindly follows rules and procedures.

   Bürokratischer Funktionär

   • The corporate apparatchik refused to approve the project without the proper forms.
   • She called him a party apparatchik for his rigid adherence to protocol.
   • The government apparatchik spent years climbing the bureaucratic ladder.

   Synonymepaper-pusherpencil pusherpenpusher

   Antonymefreethinkerindividualistmaverickrebel