A worker who holds or is invested with an office.

synoniem: official.

Roget 694: director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller.    superintendent, supervisor, straw boss; intendant; overseer, overlooker^†; supercargo^†, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile^†; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master etc. 745; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman^†, precentor^†, bellwether, agitator; caporal^†, choregus^†, collector, file leader, flugelman^†, linkboy^†.    guiding star etc. (guidance) 693; adviser etc. 695; guide etc. (information) 527; pilot; helmsman; steersman, steermate^†; wire-puller.    driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion, vetturino^†, muleteer, arriero^†, teamster; whipper in.    head, head man, head center, boss; principal, president, speaker; chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson; captain etc. (master) 745; superior; mayor etc. (civil authority) 745; vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch^†.    officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist^†, bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority etc. 745.    statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist^†, statemonger^†; Minos, Draco; arbiter etc. (judge) 967; boss [U.S.], political dictator.    board etc. (council) 696.    secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar etc. (deputy) 759; steward, factor; agent etc. 758; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve^†; factotum, major-domo^†, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 758: consignee, trustee, nominee, committee.    agent, delegate; commissary, commissioner; emissary, envoy, commissionaire [Fr.]; messenger etc. 534.    diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique [Fr.], embassy; ambassador, embassador^†; representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio^†, charge d'affaires [Fr.], attache.    vicegerent etc. (deputy) 759; plenipotentiary.    functionary, placeman^†, curator; treasurer etc. 801; factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business; factotum etc. (director) 694; caretaker; dalal^†, dubash^†, garnishee, gomashta^†.    negotiator, go-between; middleman; under agent, employe; servant etc. 746; referee, arbitrator etc. (judge) 967.    traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur [Fr.], touter^†, commercial traveler, drummer [U.S.], traveling man.    newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: functionaris
Pools: urzędnik, biuralista