apparatchiknoun [ C ]
/ˌæp.əˈrætʃ.ɪk//ˌɑː.pəˈrɑː.tʃɪk/a loyal and senior member of a political party, especially the Communist Party in the former USSR:
A former apparatchik in the Communist Party, she became a diplomat.
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- To some political leaders, the results have shown the envoys to be nothing more than overrated apparatchiks who have made little difference.
- Most ex-guerilla fighters are in their forties now and have become party apparatchiks.
- She criticized him as a White House apparatchik who always backs the president.
- The convention will be a mix of professional politicians, high-ranking party apparatchiks and ordinary voters.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Organizations - position & status
- a rung on/of the ladder idiom
- associate
- back seat
- be a big fish in a small pond idiom
- betters 2
- brethren
- comrade
- elite
- entry-level
- equal
- fellow
- low-level
- position
- pretender
- role
- rung
- second class
- senior
- standing
- subordinate
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