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apparatchik ['æpəræʧɪk] nstresses
gen. работник аппарата; номенклатурщик (epoost); чиновник (an official who works for a government or other organization and who obeys orders without thinking: * In others Communist apparatchiks remade themselves as nationalist autocrats, and stifled democracy in its crib. * It is also very hard for apparatchiks at the grassroots of the party to understand. * Sophiatown itself-erased by the brutal apparatchiks of apartheid in 1955-is as much the protagonist as the suit. * The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik. * The key date for seasoned party apparatchiks, however, is today. * The offices were small, and apparatchiks scuttled round between rooms. * The Praga became a favoured haunt for upwardly mobile apparatchiks, visiting VIPs and wedding parties. * When an apparatchik dies, his family can request a plot in one of several Moscow cemeteries informally reserved for the elite. LDCE Alexander Demidov)
polit. партийный функционер; аппаратчик (member of party or governmental machinery)
russ.lang. аппаратчик; партаппаратчик (snowleopard)
soviet., russ.lang. аппаратчик (pl. apparatchiks or apparatchiki; full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or the Soviet government apparat. Может употребляться неодобрительное либо в шутку и по отношению к несоветским реалиям:: Do you really think she gave the say so? Some a(p)paratchik in the DoE f*cked up big style! That doesn't mean to say she isn't accountable. wikipedia.org 4uzhoj)
apparatchiks n
gen. аппаратчики (A member of a communist party apparat. > derogatory or humorous An official in a large political organization: Tory apparatchiks EXAMPLE SENTENCES It would not normally be worth reporting except that it is a small example of how difficult it can be these days for the ordinary scientist to question the official beliefs of the apparatchiks of global warming. The more top-down management became dominant, the greater must be the tensions between the top-down apparatchiks and the academic staff who do the research and the teaching and the examining. With the political journalists, the fun in reading them is trying to work out which politician, apparatchik or bureaucrat they've been speaking to. OD Alexander Demidov)
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