Definitions

apparatchik

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

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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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

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

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