functionaries

Meaning of functionaries

noun
  1. A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.
  2. A paper-pusher, bean counter.

Information about functionaries

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of functionaries is: functionary.
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Hyphenation of functionaries

func-tionar-ies

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 13 chars.
  • functionaries is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with functionaries

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