Word of the Day:
apparatchik
What It Means
A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
Apparatchik in Context
“He's so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik, that Prime Minister Brown decides he can't send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush.”
Did You Know?
From Russian аппара́тчик (apparátčik, “operator, apparatchik”), from аппара́т (apparát, “apparat, apparatus (of state)”) + suffix -чик (-čik).
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