functionary meaning in Malayalam
അധികൃതൻ
/ˈfʌŋ(k).ʃn̩.(ə)ri/US/ˈfʌŋ(k).ʃəˌnɛ.ri/
functionary in Malayalam: അധികൃതൻ, ഭാരവാഹി, ഭാരവാഹിനി, ചുമതലക്കാരൻ. In English, functionary means a person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required.
Malayalam words for functionary
- official, office-holder, public servant
- അധികൃതൻ, ഭാരവാഹി, ഭാരവാഹിനി, ചുമതലക്കാരൻ, അധികാരി, നിയോഗി
English meaning of functionary
- noun A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required.
- noun Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.
functionary in a sentence
- Near-synonyms: bureaucrat; official; officer; administrator; apparatchik
- Near-synonyms: bureaucrat, apparatchik; paper-pusher; bean counter
Synonyms of functionary
functionary in other languages
Questions about functionary in Malayalam
- What is the meaning of functionary in Malayalam?
- Functionary in Malayalam is അധികൃതൻ, ഭാരവാഹി, ഭാരവാഹിനി, ചുമതലക്കാരൻ.
- functionary എന്നതിന്റെ മലയാളം അർത്ഥം എന്താണ്?
- Functionary: അധികൃതൻ, ഭാരവാഹി, ഭാരവാഹിനി, ചുമതലക്കാരൻ.
- What does functionary mean in English?
- Functionary means a person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required.
Source and license
Malayalam words from the E.K. Kurup corpus on Olam: functionary (dataset and license). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: functionary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malayalam words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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