Thesaurus results for MANDARIN

mandarin

noun

ˈman-d(ə-)rən

Definition of mandarin

as in official

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

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Recent Examples of mandarin There are several oranges, mandarins, a lemon and finger lime. — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026 This spicy, cozy take on citrus opens with mandarin and bergamot, then quickly warms up with the addition of cardamom, petitgrain, and a luscious base of amber and cedar. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Aug. 2026 And as Netanyahu’s coalitions hardened Schleien’s programs became edgier, skewering Netanyahu sycophants in the Likud Party, anti-élitist demagogues, cultic settlers, and rabbinic mandarins. — Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026 Mistral, the yacht's open-air Mediterranean restaurant, features coral, mandarin, and blush tones, with Ginori porcelain and glassware on every table. — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mandarin

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Minneapolis officials estimated the crackdown’s economic cost at nearly $700 million.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
Russia's round-the-clock bombardment of targets in Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80 others, officials said Monday.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of official

Noun

The prosecutor was aware that some people viewed career officials who had remained at the Justice Department as comparable to the bureaucrats who had dutifully followed orders in Nazi Germany.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
His father worked as a bureaucrat in Manhattan; his mother taught piano lessons from their living room.

— Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of bureaucrat

Noun

Meanwhile, Brown, a former security official with the Michigan Department of State, said her group has hired former CISA employees to help provide training and other support to election clerks and fill the gap.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
The broker’s role shifts from data entry clerk to data reviewer.

— Wesley D. Snow, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of clerk

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The slow-moving storm, which killed a New York City housing authority worker when a tree fell Saturday, was expected to linger through Sunday with heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous surf all the way to New England.

— Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
In Surf City, New Jersey, water rose inside a marina where workers had moved equipment to higher ground, and owner Kenny Formica said customers reported boats and Jet Skis missing or blown from their lifts.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of worker

Noun

Among them was Joseph Felix Badio, 63, a former Haitian government functionary who has emerged as a central figure, and Samir Handal.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
This was no gangsta rap Nuremberg, but rather something closer to the trial of Adolf Eichmann — a case tried decades later in which the aging defendant wasn’t the actual killer but a banal middleman, a functionary and a lethal node of transport.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of functionary

Noun

Hiroto Sakata, a civil servant from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, visited Tokyo's Asakusa district on a day trip and purchased tickets for two people, which cost 2,000 yen total, and skipped the line.

— Masayuki Oi Japan News, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
Set in the summer of 1970, the story turns on the diligent civil servant Heikki who decides to host a high-ranking Soviet diplomat at his family’s lakeside cottage.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026

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