apparatchik

noun

1. （大政治机构的）官员
   an official in a large political organization
   1. party apparatchiks
      党的官员

1. N-COUNT （盲从的）政府官员，政党官僚
   An apparatchik is someone who works for a government or a political party and who always obeys orders.
   1. Political party apparatchiks are appointed to every office of social authority.
      每个具有社会权力的官职都由政党官僚出任。

1. Political party apparatchiks are appointed to every office of social authority.
   每个具有社会权力的官职都由政党官僚出任。
2. Kim Yong-nam, an octogenarian apparatchik who heads the parliament, delivered the funeral oration, saying the ideological heart of the nuclear-armed state would remain the armed forces.
   年逾八旬的朝鲜最高人民会议常任委员会委员长金永南（KimYong-nam）致悼词，他表示，在这个拥有核武的国家，武装部队仍将置身于意识形态的中心。
3. I pickpocketed a key off this apparatchik.
   就是偷了一把我们这个组织的一把钥匙。

noun

1. a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party

2. a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization)
   1. Democratic apparatchiks