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 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 Mistral, the yacht's open-air Mediterranean restaurant, features coral, mandarin, and blush tones, with Ginori porcelain and glassware on every table. — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mandarin

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Noun

An Allan Hancock College spokesperson confirmed the detention and said college officials were not notified in advance.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026
There have been 1,004 cases, including 198 hospitalizations and five deaths, state officials said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 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

Earlier this year, Newsom called for local elections clerks to count ballots faster to head off misinformation ahead of the June 2 primary.

— Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Some budgetary concern No formal opposition arguments have been submitted to the registrar-recorder/county clerk.

— Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of clerk

Noun

Prescription drugs filled at a pharmacy represented 18% of a worker’s health care premium in 2021, after factoring in any rebates paid out by manufacturers, according to the consulting and actuarial firm Milliman.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Face masks were distributed to local kindergartens, and mandatory mask mandates were slapped on workers at the nearby Irkutsk Aluminum Plant.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 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

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
The federal government had also been squeezing the region economically, by withholding funds needed to pay Tigray’s civil servants and limiting access to banks and fuel, according to the TPLF.

— Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of civil servant

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