All functionary synonyms

noun functionary

• officer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
• handler — a person or thing that handles.
• administrator — An administrator is a person whose job involves helping to organize and supervise the way that an organization or institution functions.
• civil servant — A civil servant is a person who works in the Civil Service in Britain and some other countries, or for the local, state, or federal government in the United States.
• politician — a person who is active in party politics.
• public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
• official — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
• manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
• agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
• director — a person or thing that directs.
• chief — The chief of an organization is the person who is in charge of it.
• leader — a person or thing that leads.
• secretary — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
• commissioner — A commissioner is an important official in a government department or other organization.
• minister — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
• deputy — A deputy is the second most important person in an organization such as a business or government department. Someone's deputy often acts on their behalf when they are not there.
• assistant — Assistant is used in front of titles or jobs to indicate a slightly lower rank. For example, an assistant director is one rank lower than a director in an organization.
• worker — a person or thing that works.
• broker — A broker is a person whose job is to buy and sell shares, foreign money, or goods for other people.
• promoter — a person or thing that promotes, furthers, or encourages.
• representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
• lawyer — a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for clients in other legal matters.
• operator — a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like: a telegraph operator.
• operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
• ambassador — An ambassador is an important official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country's interests there.
• attorney — In the United States, an attorney or attorney at law is a lawyer.
• go-between — a person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary.
• negotiator — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
• substitute — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
• principal — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
• abettor — a person who abets.
• actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
• doer — a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
• factor — Christmas factor.
• intermediary — an intermediate agent or agency; a go-between or mediator.
• proctor — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
• advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
• salesperson — a person who sells goods, services, etc.
• proxy — the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another.
• surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
• servant — a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
• steward — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
• delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
• assignee — a person to whom some right, interest, or property is transferred
• mover — a person or thing that moves.
• factotum — a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
• head — Edith, 1897–1981, U.S. costume designer.
• dignitary — a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church.
• bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
• magistrate — a civil officer charged with the administration of the law.