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mandarin
Synonyms and Antonyms of mandarin
a worker in a government agency the officious mandarins in the motor vehicles department refused to let me renew my license without all of the required forms Synonyms civil servant, functionary, bureaucrat, public servantRelated Words clerk, officeholder, official, officiary; employee (also employe), hand, hireling, jobholder, underling, worker
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