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 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 On the sweet side, ube, chamoy, matcha tea and mandarin were all top-20 flavors. — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 The final product was a combination of tangerine, mandarin and vanilla notes. — Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for mandarin

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Noun

Election officials have said there was simply no way to carry out a complete overhaul in the weeks before the midterms.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Airport officials said the additional revenue would help pay for new parking amenities, as well as rising debt and operating costs.

— Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of official

Noun

Nearly 30 years after a million starving aliens were stranded near Johannesburg, a bureaucrat tasked with forcibly relocating them is exposed to an alien chemical and starts to experience changes.

— Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
Borrowers need to keep opportunities to educate themselves about the nuances of credit cards, not cede for some bureaucrat to decide what risk should cost.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of bureaucrat

Noun

Requests for comment sent to the Bourbon County Sheriff's Office and the local circuit court clerk were not immediately returned.

— Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2026
The court clerk of Oklahoma’s Western District declined to comment on behalf of the district and the judges.

— Carla Astudillo, ProPublica, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of clerk

Noun

Singapore pays its political leaders high salaries to attract talent and deter graft, but the issue is thorny in the city-state, where the median wage worker made S$5,775 ($736) a month in 2025.

— Reuters, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
To give workers more, the DSA would basically end capitalism.

— Nolan Finley The Detroit News, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of worker

Noun

The reviewer may technically be the person receiving the response, but potential customers, employees, journalists and business partners are the ones who will read it months or even years later.

— Evan Nierman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
County employees found the dead birds Sunday morning and worked into the afternoon clearing them.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of employee

Noun

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
Played completely deadpan by Konopka, the character beneath this daft assemblage of aesthetic choices makes no real sense as a functionary in this dry, dark future, much less as its hero.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of functionary

Noun

Such a large amount is a shock to ordinary civil servants who earn six or seven thousand yuan a month.

— Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Among ordinary Russians and civil servants alike, proliferating social controls and prosecutions for treason have created a pervasive climate of mistrust and fueled a sense of paralysis.

— Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026

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