Definitions

apparatchik

[ah-puh-rah-chik, uh-puh-raht-chyik] / ˌɑ pəˈrɑ tʃɪk, ʌ pʌˈrɑt tʃjɪk /

NOUN

communist

Synonyms

STRONG

Bolshevik Bolshevist Commie Maoist Marxist Stalinist Trotskyite comrade leftist red socialist sympathizer

WEAK

C.P. member Castroite Leninist Party member Viet Cong com-symp fellow traveler member of the Communist Party pinko

Antonyms

WEAK

capitalist conservative

Example Sentences

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East German Party Apparatchik Rudolf Bahro has dared to argue that a variety of Marxist groups be allowed to challenge the Communist Party's power monopoly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apparatchik Inevitably, the North Koreans dismissed Nixon as a "notorious war maniac," while the Communist Chinese paired Humphrey and Nixon as "jackals of the same lair."

From Time Magazine Archive

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