Usually means: Bureaucrat in a communist regime.
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  1. apparatchik: Merriam-Webster
  2. apparatchik: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apparatchik: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apparatchik: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apparatchik: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apparatchik, apparatchik: Wordnik
  7. apparatchik: Wiktionary
  8. apparatchik: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. apparatchik: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. apparatchik: Dictionary.com
  11. apparatchik: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Apparatchik (disambiguation), Apparatchik (fanzine), Apparatchik: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. apparatchik: FreeDictionary.org
  14. apparatchik: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. apparatchik: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. apparatchik: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. apparatchik: Merriam-Webster

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  1. apparatchik: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. apparatchik: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A blindly loyal bureaucrat.

Similar:
apparat, chinovnik, praporshchik, apparator, czarocrat, commissar, paritor, apparatus, apparitor, komissar, more...

Opposite:
nonconformist, dissident, rebel, outsider

Types:
bureaucrat, pen-pusher, paper-pusher, bean-counter, clerk, functionary, stooge, lackey, more...

Adjectives:
communist, soviet, former, typical, old, young, time, local, loyal, professional, senior

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Similar:
apparat, chinovnik, praporshchik, apparator, czarocrat, commissar, paritor, apparatus, apparitor, komissar, more...

Opposite:
nonconformist, dissident, rebel, outsider

Types:
bureaucrat, pen-pusher, paper-pusher, bean-counter, clerk, functionary, stooge, lackey, more...

Adjectives:
communist, soviet, former, typical, old, young, time, local, loyal, professional, senior

Colors:
    red,     crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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