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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

  1. 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.
  2. noun Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.

Full definition of functionary

functionary in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: bureaucrat; official; officer; administrator; apparatchik
  • Near-synonyms: bureaucrat, apparatchik; paper-pusher; bean counter

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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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