mandarins

noun

Definition of mandarinsnext
plural of mandarin
as in officials
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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  1. bureaucrats
  2. employees
  3. clerks
  4. workers
Noun
  • The White House must identify influential bureaucrats and convince them that change serves not only the national interest but also their agencies’ interests.
    Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The British focused on the repressed anger that many ordinary Germans felt toward Nazi bureaucrats.
    Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of bureaucrats
Noun
  • Out of office Rest easy, Microsoft employees.
    Nick Rockel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Nvidia Business Group will consist of 30,000 employees focused on assisting clients scale enterprise generative AI adoption.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of employees
Noun
  • Volunteer poll workers informed the three assistant clerks and were instructed to override the system and issue in-person ballots, Nessel said.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Assistant clerks Patricia Guciardo, 73, and Emily McClintock, 42, are each charged with one count of falsifying election returns or records, a maximum 5-year felony, one count of voting absentee and in person, and one count of offering to vote more than once.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of clerks
Noun
  • Nike’s recent shareholder vote against a proposal to consider binding agreements with workers across the supply chain to address human rights issues could push their score down in the future.
    Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Gago at the end of the session summarized key takeaways, calculating that female professionals across the three countries only make up around 30 percent of sector workers.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of workers
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