functionary

1 a person who holds a public office spoke to high-ranking functionaries at the embassy in the hopes that they could help Synonyms official, officeholder, officer, public servantRelated Words bureaucrat; administrator, commissioner, director, executive, head, manager, regulator, superintendent, supervisor; chair, chairman; flunky (also flunkey or flunkie), minion, underling; co-official

2 a worker in a government agency the faceless functionaries at the Internal Revenue Service Synonyms civil servant, bureaucrat, mandarin, public servantRelated Words clerk, officeholder, official, officiary; employee (also employe), hand, hireling, jobholder, underling, worker