Although he denied the charges, the apparatchik was put on trial.
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Apparatchik
//æpəˈɹæt͡ʃɪk//
Synonyms for "apparatchik" (3 found)
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35 translations across 19 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 党棍 noun (blindly loyal bureaucrat)
- 共党官员 noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- 官僚 noun (blindly loyal bureaucrat)
Dutch
1 entries- apparatsjik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Finnish
1 entries- apparatsikki noun (member of a Communist apparat)
French
2 entries- apparatchik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- apparatchik noun (blindly loyal bureaucrat)
German
1 entries- Apparatschik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Greek
1 entries- απαράτσικ noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Icelandic
3 entries- kerfiskarl noun (blindly loyal bureaucrat)
- kerfiskommi noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- kerfiskona noun (blindly loyal bureaucrat)
Italian
2 entries- apparatcik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- apparatčik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Japanese
2 entries- アパラチク noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- 党官僚 noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Lithuanian
1 entries- aparatčikas noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Norwegian
1 entries- apparatsjik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Polish
2 entries- aparatczyk noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- aparatczyk noun (blindly loyal bureaucrat)
Portuguese
2 entries- aparatchik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- apparatchik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Romanian
1 entries- nomenclaturist noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Russian
4 entries- аппара́тчик noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- аппара́тчик noun (blindly loyal bureaucrat)
- аппара́тчица noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- функционе́р noun (blindly loyal bureaucrat)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- aparàtčik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- апаратчик noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Spanish
1 entries- apparatchik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Swedish
3 entries- apparatjik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- apparattjik noun (member of a Communist apparat)
- partifunktionär noun (member of a Communist apparat)
Yiddish
1 entries- אַפּאַראַטשיק noun (member of a Communist apparat)
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Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.
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In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.
Source: wiktionary
Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. […] He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik.
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