Word Meanings - FUNCTIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUNCTIONARY)

• Officer
• Official
• functionary
• conductor
• director
• administrator
• manager
• dignitary
• official

Related words: (words related to FUNCTIONARY)

• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• MANAGERY
  1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
• DIRECTORSHIP
  The condition or office of a director; directorate.
• CONDUCTOR
  The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
• ADMINISTRATORSHIP
  The position or office of an administrator.
• DIRECTORIAL
  1. Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive. 2. Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. Whoever goes to the directorial presence
• OFFICER
  Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
• MANAGERIAL
  Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.
• DIGNITARY
  One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
• DIRECTORATE
  The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
• CONDUCTORY
  Having the property of conducting.
• OFFICIALLY
  By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
• OFFICIAL
  Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal. 4. Discharging an office or function. The stomach and other parts official unto nutrition. Sir T. Browne.
• FUNCTIONARY
  One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
• ADMINISTRATOR
  A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority. (more info) 1. One who administers affairs; one who
• DIRECTOR
  A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body
• MANAGERSHIP
  The office or position of a manager.
• OFFICIALITY
  See OFFICIALTY
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• RADIOCONDUCTOR
  A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.
• EXTRA-OFFICIAL
  Not prescribed by official duty.
• INOFFICIAL
  Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering. Syn.
• SUBOFFICER
  An under or subordinate officer.
• UNDEROFFICER
  A subordinate officer.
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.