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chinovniks

chinovniks is the plural of chinovnik.

Meaning of chinovnik

Noun

chinovnik (plural chinovniks)

  1. A minor functionary or mere bureaucrat in the Russian government.
  2. (historical) A bureaucrat in the Tsarist Russian government.
    • Ivan Antonych was probably the only one of the Russian chinovniks in Byeltsy who spoke with the Jewish representatives in a humane way and did not show any favoritism toward the Russian element.1998, Nikolai Bukharin, How It All Began: The Prison Novel, page 50

Questions about chinovniks

What is chinovniks the plural of?
Chinovniks is the plural of chinovnik.

Words near chinovniks in the dictionary

  1. chinooks
  2. chinos
  3. Chinovela
  4. Chinovelas
  5. chinovnik
  6. chinovniks
  7. chinovose
  8. Chinoy
  9. Chinoys
  10. chinpiece
  11. chinpieces

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