fonctionnairen.
/ˌfʌŋ(k)ʃnˈɛː/, /ˌfɒ̃kʃnˈɛː/, /ˌfɒ̃ksjəˈnɛː/, U.S. /ˌfəŋ(k)ʃəˈnɛ(ə)r/, /ˌfɑŋ(k)ʃəˈnɛ(ə)r/ In France or French-speaking countries: a government official; a civil servant.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > civil service > [noun] > civil servant
servantc1400
public servant1598
civil servant1767
fonctionnaire1887
Whitehall warrior1944
1887 Hull Daily Mail 19 Sept. (Special ed.) We may be permitted to doubt whether any number of Governmental circulars will succeed in eradicating the inherent unnecessary fussiness of a French fonctionnaire in the exercise of his functions.
1917 Harvard Law Rev. 31 187 The result [of making the organization efficient] was to leave the fonctionnaire at the mercy directly of the minister.
1992 Montreal Mirror 23 Jan. 13/1 It should be comforting to a few fonctionaires at the Office de la langue française..that the Régie du cinéma and Quebec's Minister of Cultural Affairs will soon beset us with a new set of laws affecting film and video.
2018 C. Black Murder on Left Bank 13 The pink-faced, fiftysomething fonctionnaire threw a report on the office desk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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