1. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Officials Apparatchik ap‧par‧at‧chik / ˌɑːpəˈrɑːtʃɪk / noun [countable] PGO an official who works for a government or other organization and who obeys orders without thinking a Communist party Apparatchik Examples from the Corpus Apparatchik • When an Apparatchik