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What is a functionary?

What is a functionary? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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 not required.
  2. A paper-pusher, bean counter.
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I do not know if this be true, but of the functionary we might say as often as not, he does not think, he is thought.
A few days later a senior RSS functionary was knifed to death by unknown assailants in the district.
But they should abandon the illusion that the news manager can be dropped as an official functionary.
Opposite to this functionary was a bench whereon the witnesses were placed.
For doing all such activities and acting as an important functionary for the government, the monthly wages being paid to him are too meager to be taken into consideration.
And, like it or not, spectators assume you're another campaign functionary, not the hired help.

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