a worker who holds or is invested with an office He was the functionary of the assize court, impaneling its juries, bringing accused men before it, and carrying out its penalties. — Reilly, S. A.

"one who has a certain function, one who holds an office," 1791, from or patterned on French fonctionnaire, a word of the Revolution; from fonction (see function (n.)). As an adjective in En [..]

person who performs a specific duty or responsibility.

n. An official.

Any person who holds an office or a trust or performs a particular function (an official) is known as functionary. In other words, any person who is in office or some public employment is a functionar [..]

(n) a worker who holds or is invested with an office

The functionary dominates the apparatus through controlling its exterior (input and output), and is in turn dominated by the opacity of its interior. In other words, functionaries are people who domin [..]

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 requ [..]