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public servant collapse: someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment)

officeholder collapse: someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year"

mandarin collapse: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China; a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China; a high public official of imperial China; any high government official or bureaucrat; a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group; shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

warlord collapse: supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak

usurper collapse: one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another

Simon Legree collapse: the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

tyrant collapse: a cruel and oppressive dictator; any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant"; in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it

dictator collapse: a ruler who is unconstrained by law; a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine

oppressor collapse: a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures

caesar collapse: conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC); United States comedian who pioneered comedy television shows (born 1922)

czar collapse: a person having great power; a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

stickler collapse: someone who insists on something; "a stickler for promptness"

skipper collapse: a student who fails to attend classes; work as the skipper on a vessel

slave driver collapse: a supervisor of slaves at work; a cruel employer who demands excessive work from the employees

caviling collapse: quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

officer collapse: a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"; direct or command as an officer

commissar collapse: an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit

gambler collapse: a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events; someone who risks loss or injury in the hope of gain or excitement

narrow-minded collapse: lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"; rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines

Realpolitik collapse: politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations

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