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 Sliced, candied jalapeños and mandarins offer pops of sweet, citrusy heat. — Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for mandarin

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Noun

Comments on the proposal are due Tuesday, but community development groups are pressing for an extension, and a Federal Reserve official recently detailed some of the agency's concerns.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
The 911 call recordings, as reported by the Associated Press, showed that first responders and prison officials did not know whether a request for emergency help from within the execution chamber was legitimate.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of official

Noun

These are scientists, academics, and bureaucrats speaking with their own distinct terminology and often talking past one another.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026
But elevating the whims of progressive activists and government bureaucrats above the wisdom of the marketplace has proven a costly mistake and undermined consumer choice.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of bureaucrat

Noun

Lennon, the Boone County clerk, predicted that there will be uncertainty as to whether the election winners can even be seated in Congress; surely, there will be litigation to that end.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
As recently as fall 2023, the stepmother ran into Laura Hamilton, who was working as a clerk at a Dollar Tree in town, and Hamilton indicated that Kari Siira still lived in her home under her care, according to court records.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of clerk

Noun

As part of orchestrating this project, Simon was also involved in securing visas for the various international performers, encountering in the process the uneven access to travel for cultural workers across classes, nationalities, and milieus.

— Stephanie Wambugu, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026
The headman is compromised, an NGO in the area is pursuing its own politics, and the man running the mine discloses that Nengsal was never on the books, leaving workers like him invisible on their own land.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of worker

Noun

But Young noted that the child's lawyer, the judge, and government attorneys seeking deportation will all be federal employees.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
The service The service at Sala is seamless and friendly, and from arrival, the front desk staff feels more like a group of friends than a removed set of hotel employees.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of employee

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

Local governments are running deficits, with many struggling to pay teachers and civil servants their salaries and benefits on time.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
Emmanuel Marre | Belgium | 155 min Cannes Best Screenplay winner A MAN OF HIS TIME stars ANATOMY OF A FALL’s Swann Arlaud as a Vichy civil servant whose faith in government collapses amid collaboration, bureaucracy, and moral surrender.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of civil servant

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