English > official: 7 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A worker who holds or is invested with an office. |
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| Synonym | functionary |
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| Narrower | Comptroller General | A United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government |
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| Comptroller of the Currency | A United States federal official who regulates the national banks |
| Inquisitor | An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition |
| agent, federal agent | Any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau |
| apparatchik | A humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) |
| appointee | An official who is appointed |
| bailiff | An officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. |
| beadle | A minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function |
| bureaucrat, administrative official | An official of a bureaucracy |
| caretaker | An official who performs the duties of an office temporarily |
| censor | A person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable |
| census taker, enumerator | someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes / homes |
| church officer | A church official |
| city father | An important municipal official |
| civil servant | A public official who is a member of the civil service |
| commissar, political commissar | An official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit |
| diplomat, diplomatist | An official engaged in international negotiations |
| elected official | official who won the office in a free election |
| equerry | An official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles |
| fire marshall | An official who is responsible for the prevention and investigation of fires / fires |
| fire warden, forest fire fighter, ranger | An official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest / forest |
| hearing examiner, hearing officer | An official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers |
| holdover, hangover | An official who remains in office after his term |
| incumbent, officeholder | The official who holds an office |
| invalidator, voider, nullifier | An official who can invalidate or nullify |
| judge, justice, jurist | A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice |
| licenser | An official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) |
| macebearer, mace, macer | An official who carries a mace of office |
| mandarin | Any high government official or bureaucrat |
| notary, notary public | someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions |
| noticer | someone who gives formal notice |
| officeholder, officer | someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust |
| postmaster general | The official in charge of the national postal service |
| proconsul | An official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power |
| prosecutor, public prosecutor, prosecuting officer, prosecuting attorney | A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state |
| provincial | (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order |
| quaestor | Any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration) |
| recruiter | An official who enlists personnel for military service |
| registrar, record-keeper, recorder | someone responsible for keeping records / records |
| regulator | An official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest |
| returning officer | The official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results |
| sealer | An official who affixes a seal / seal to a document |
| searcher | A customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items |
| teller, vote counter | An official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) |
| town clerk | The official who keeps a town's records / records |
| usher, doorkeeper | An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber |
| vizier | A high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire) |
| weigher | An official who weighs and records the weight |
| Broader | skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman | A worker who has acquired special skills |
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| Spanish | funcionario |
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| Catalan | funcionari |
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| Nouns | officialdom | people elected or appointed to administer a government |
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