apparatchik

1. 1.

   a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization)

   “Democratic apparatchiks”

   Broaderofficial
2. 2.

   a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party

   Broadercommunist

Other forms of apparatchik

plural

apparatchiks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apparatchik

What does apparatchik mean?

apparatchik means "a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apparatchik?

apparatchik has 4 syllables: ap-pa-rat-chik. The stress falls on "rat". In IPA it is /ˌæpɚˈætʃɪk/.

Is apparatchik a common word?

apparatchik is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.