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单词 apparatchik
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Definition of apparatchik in English:

apparatchik

nounPlural apparatchiks, Plural apparatchiki ˌapəˈratʃɪkˌɑpəˈrɑtʃɪk
historical
  • 1A member of a Communist Party apparat.

    old apparatchiks have given way to the Russian government's young reformers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Blogging politicians are always going to be seen as a little bit like those old Communist apparatchiks who had to sit in the front row at rock concerts and pretend to swing to the beat.
    • Former Communist Party apparatchiks wound up in control of most state assets while billions haemorrhaged out of the country into numbered Swiss bank accounts.
    • You write that in four of these five states the current rulers are former apparatchiks of the Communist Party.
    • In so doing, they hope to exonerate the thousands of former Khmer Rouge apparatchiks within the Cambodian government, military and business elite.
    • Privatization often has involved the corrupt transfer of assets into the private hands of former communist apparatchiks.
    1. 1.1derogatory, humorous An official in a large political organization.
      Tory apparatchiks
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So long as the state provides them with what they need and does not interfere unduly with their operations, they leave it to the apparatchiks.
      • Over the past 6 years, he got used to having his way in the party-whether by sulking at the mildest of criticism, or by cracking the whip on apparatchiks.
      • 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.
      • ‘Oh well, you know how busy she is, being a minister’, simpers her constituency apparatchik when you try to contact her.
      • This apparatchik added looking at the academics who were commanded to attend: ‘If there is anyone here against democracy, I shall smash his face’.
      • It is a bit rich for the apparatchiks of contemporary tourism industries to claim a romantic attachment to objects whose value is derived solely from that which was placed upon them by British antiquarians of yester-year.
      • It is entirely generated by three budget-hungry heads of universities and their apparatchiks.
      • Clearly, there is no place in all of this for court painters to undertake ‘influential interventions’ on behalf of bewildered litigants, or for sentences to be carried out by furtive apparatchiks in some distant quarry.
      • It draws its core membership from an aspiring petty bourgeois layer of career politicians, apparatchiks and trade union functionaries who will swallow anything in order further their own privileged existence.
      • Global pundits will find endless flaws, and many a Washington apparatchik may be troubled by the election's outcome.
      • Today we get apparatchiks who start their working life with the intention to become a politician and work their way through the rarified environment of trade union offices, electorate offices or political think tanks.
      • Against a background where change comes slow, the theory of a ‘black hole’ swallowing up hikes in funding has gained currency among frustrated Finance apparatchiks.
      • The message to our cultural apparatchiks was that the more popular the project the more official favour and the more money it would find.
      • With the political journalists, the fun in reading them is trying to work out which politician, apparatchik or bureaucrat they've been speaking to.
      • Church apparatchiks are fond of saying they think in centuries, not days or years, but perhaps it's a habit they need to kick.
      • But there is a third level of meaning here which, intended or not, lends this show an importance greater than the art itself and throws down the gauntlet to Scotland's cultural apparatchiks.
      • Curators, artists, dealers and art world apparatchiks seemed all, for once, to be speaking with the same voice.
      • And where are the political thinkers, as opposed to the apparatchiks?
      • And the weather apparatchiks also refuse to acknowledge that even in the winter the sun provides some slight warmth.
      • 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.
      Synonyms
      official, office-bearer, office-holder, public servant, civil servant, bureaucrat, administrator

Origin

1940s: Russian, from apparat (see apparat).

 
 

Definition of apparatchik in US English:

apparatchik

nounˌäpəˈräCHikˌɑpəˈrɑtʃɪk
historical
  • 1A member of a Communist Party apparat.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You write that in four of these five states the current rulers are former apparatchiks of the Communist Party.
    • Blogging politicians are always going to be seen as a little bit like those old Communist apparatchiks who had to sit in the front row at rock concerts and pretend to swing to the beat.
    • Former Communist Party apparatchiks wound up in control of most state assets while billions haemorrhaged out of the country into numbered Swiss bank accounts.
    • In so doing, they hope to exonerate the thousands of former Khmer Rouge apparatchiks within the Cambodian government, military and business elite.
    • Privatization often has involved the corrupt transfer of assets into the private hands of former communist apparatchiks.
    1. 1.1humorous, derogatory An official in a large political organization.
      Tory apparatchiks
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Against a background where change comes slow, the theory of a ‘black hole’ swallowing up hikes in funding has gained currency among frustrated Finance apparatchiks.
      • Clearly, there is no place in all of this for court painters to undertake ‘influential interventions’ on behalf of bewildered litigants, or for sentences to be carried out by furtive apparatchiks in some distant quarry.
      • It draws its core membership from an aspiring petty bourgeois layer of career politicians, apparatchiks and trade union functionaries who will swallow anything in order further their own privileged existence.
      • It is a bit rich for the apparatchiks of contemporary tourism industries to claim a romantic attachment to objects whose value is derived solely from that which was placed upon them by British antiquarians of yester-year.
      • With the political journalists, the fun in reading them is trying to work out which politician, apparatchik or bureaucrat they've been speaking to.
      • This apparatchik added looking at the academics who were commanded to attend: ‘If there is anyone here against democracy, I shall smash his face’.
      • And the weather apparatchiks also refuse to acknowledge that even in the winter the sun provides some slight warmth.
      • Curators, artists, dealers and art world apparatchiks seemed all, for once, to be speaking with the same voice.
      • It is entirely generated by three budget-hungry heads of universities and their apparatchiks.
      • 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.
      • But there is a third level of meaning here which, intended or not, lends this show an importance greater than the art itself and throws down the gauntlet to Scotland's cultural apparatchiks.
      • Today we get apparatchiks who start their working life with the intention to become a politician and work their way through the rarified environment of trade union offices, electorate offices or political think tanks.
      • Over the past 6 years, he got used to having his way in the party-whether by sulking at the mildest of criticism, or by cracking the whip on apparatchiks.
      • 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.
      • And where are the political thinkers, as opposed to the apparatchiks?
      • The message to our cultural apparatchiks was that the more popular the project the more official favour and the more money it would find.
      • Global pundits will find endless flaws, and many a Washington apparatchik may be troubled by the election's outcome.
      • ‘Oh well, you know how busy she is, being a minister’, simpers her constituency apparatchik when you try to contact her.
      • Church apparatchiks are fond of saying they think in centuries, not days or years, but perhaps it's a habit they need to kick.
      • So long as the state provides them with what they need and does not interfere unduly with their operations, they leave it to the apparatchiks.
      Synonyms
      official, office-bearer, office-holder, public servant, civil servant, bureaucrat, administrator

Origin

1940s: Russian, from apparat (see apparat).

 
 
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