Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of apparatchik.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word apparatchiki.

Examples

  • It was the dish we all had grown up with: the soulless apparatchiki, the indifferent elite, the enduring, perpetually betrayed nation.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • It was the dish we all had grown up with: the soulless apparatchiki, the indifferent elite, the enduring, perpetually betrayed nation.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Anyone who saw how apparatchiki lived in Soviet times, need not wonder about this.

    The NYT is trying to take away our toilet paper! Ann Althouse 2009

  • She tell me the apparatchiki very good at spreading the wealth, as you Americans put it.

    Fixed Election: Bikes, Politics, and the Apocalypse BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • If, however, you abolish their Privilege to criticise people in the House of Commons without fear of a libel case being brought against them, or you destroy the confidentiality of their communications with their Constituents, especially those whose lives are being made hell by the Government bureaucracy, then you might as well abolish MPs all together and simply appoint Communist party apparatchiki to rubber stamp the Executive branch of Government's diktats.

    The Wilson Doctrine places MPs above the law and should be scrapped 2008

  • We wonder if Jacqui Smith and her senior civil servants and political apparatchiki have actually bothered to read the damning unanimous judgment by the 17 judges of the European Court of Human Rights.

    Archive 2008-12-14 2008

  • The admission that politics is for the party apparatchiki and only they know what is going on is most welcome confirmation.

    Let's Not Overestimate the BNP Threat 2007

  • Yes, he did mention the bread-queues, but everyone (except apparatchiki) had to ‎ join the queues, and everyone ultimately got the bread.

    Lara's Theme 2007

  • Fire the apparatchiki and replace them with journalists.

    Archive 2004-12-01 2004

  • Fire the apparatchiki and replace them with journalists.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2004

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.