APPARATCHIK
- is used disapprovingly to refer to a blindly devoted official, follower, or member of an organization, such as a corporation or political party.
- An official in a large organization, typically a political one
- A member of a communist party apparat
- (Russian) a member of the (Soviet) bureaucracy; now extended to apply to any inflexible organisation man, particularly in a political party [n APPARATCHIKS or APPARATCHIKI]