apparatchiks's Usage Examples:

I haven't heard the plaint of the apparatchiks that the BBC is acting like the unofficial opposition for a while.

Both are filled with second rate apparatchiks forever declaring their own patriotism, while keeping patriots out of office or out of print.

He soon learned he had to fight against a host of culture apparatchiks determined to defend communist folk music to the bitter end.

His dismissal of the SSP executive as " Trotskyite apparatchiks " (this to the right wing press) is especially pernicious.

apparatchiks determined to defend communist folk music to the bitter end.

Synonyms:

official, functionary,

Antonyms:

unconfirmed, irregular,