- Red-tapist
- Red-tapist Red`-tap"ist, n. One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities. --Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster]
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Red-tapist
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red-tapist — red tapˈist noun • • • Main Entry: ↑red … Useful english dictionary
tapist — tāˈpist noun A red tapist • • • Main Entry: ↑tape … Useful english dictionary
functionary — Synonyms and related words: Federal, agent, amanuensis, baggage agent, bureaucrat, business agent, civil servant, claim agent, clerk, commercial agent, commission agent, commissioner, conductor, consignee, customer agent, driver, dupe, engineer,… … Moby Thesaurus
mandarin — Synonyms and related words: Brahmin, authority, brainworker, bureaucrat, civil servant, doctor, egghead, elder, elder statesman, elitist, functionary, functionnaire, great soul, guru, highbrow, illuminate, intellect, intellectual, intellectualist … Moby Thesaurus
officeholder — Synonyms and related words: bureaucrat, civil servant, functionary, functionnaire, holdover, incumbent, ins, jack in office, lame duck, mandarin, new broom, office bearer, officer, official, officiary, petty tyrant, placeman, president elect,… … Moby Thesaurus
officer — Synonyms and related words: ADC, CO, G man, John Law, MP, OD, administrator, aide, aide de camp, apparatchik, archon, bailiff, beadle, beagle, boatswain, bound bailiff, brigadier, brigadier general, bureaucrat, captain, catchpole, chancellor,… … Moby Thesaurus
official — Synonyms and related words: Federal, absolute, accepted, accredited, administrative, administrator, agent, amanuensis, apparently, approved, archon, aristocratic, ascendant, authentic, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic,… … Moby Thesaurus
public servant — Synonyms and related words: bureaucrat, civil servant, functionary, functionnaire, holdover, incumbent, ins, jack in office, lame duck, mandarin, new broom, office bearer, officeholder, officer, official, officiary, petty tyrant, placeman,… … Moby Thesaurus
Director — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Director >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 director director manager governor rector comptroller GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 superintendent superintendent supervisor GRP: N 3 Sgm: N 3 intendant … English dictionary for students
functionary — n official, office holder, office bearer, Brit. placeman, Rare. officiary; minister, commissioner, (in the U.S.S.R.) commissar; representative, Inf. rep, deputy; public official, public servant; bureaucrat, civil servant, red tapist … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
