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Date: 1900-2000
Language: Russian
Origin: apparat 'apparatus'

apparatchik

 noun
     
Related topics: Officials
ap‧par‧at‧chik [countable]
PGO an official who works for a government or other organization and who obeys orders without thinking:
a Communist party apparatchik
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