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Bureaucrat vs Functionary - What's the difference?

bureaucrat | functionary |

As nouns the difference between bureaucrat and functionary

is that bureaucrat is an official who is part of a bureaucracy while functionary is a person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.

bureaucrat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An official who is part of a bureaucracy

    • Usage notes

    * (an official) The term (term), while often used in a professional and respectful manner, is oftentimes disdained by those who work in organizations, especially governmental organizations. This is due to connotations of rigidity, indifference, and especially laziness that the term can sometimes connote (the latter especially reflected in the oft-repeated derisive term (term)). As a result, many workers in organizations, especially governmental ones, prefer terms such as (manager), (public manager), (civil servant), (public servant), (public official), etc.

    Related terms

    * bureaucracy * bureaucratic * bureaucratese

    functionary

    English

    Noun

    (functionaries)
  • A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.