Underling - English meaning

noun

A military officer who acts as an administrative assistant to a senior officer.

Usage examples:

He eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force

noun

An assistant to an important person, especially a political leader.

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A presidential aide

noun

A person who ranks below a senior person.

Usage examples:

The managing director and his assistant

noun

A person who is appointed to undertake the duties of a superior in the superior's absence.

Usage examples:

His deputy has been largely running the business for the past year

noun

A person who is given the power to act instead of, or to help do the work of, another person

Usage examples:

A deputy chairman, the deputy editor, a sheriff’s deputy

noun

A person whose rank is immediately below that of the head of an organization or a department, and who is in charge when the head is not there

Usage examples:

He was appointed to the paris office, serving as deputy to the bureau chief., you will be required …

abbreviation

(in the uk) football association, the governing body of soccer in england.

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The fa premier league

noun

Short for fanny adams (sense 1).

Usage examples:

He knows sweet fa about football

noun

(in tonic sol-fa) the fourth note of a major scale.

noun

A liveried manservant or footman.

Usage examples:

Liveried flunkies rushed forward to open the doors, tv lights flared, cameras flashed and the crowd…

noun

A person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer

Usage examples:

He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

noun

A faithful follower or political supporter, especially one prepared to engage in crime or violence by way of service.

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The dictator's henchman

noun

A person who is loyal to and works for someone in a position of authority and is willing to help that person even by hurting others or by committing crimes

Usage examples:

Although the president kept himself above the fray, his henchmen were blaming everyone.

noun

A person employed to do menial work.

Usage examples:

The poorly paid hirelings in their shabby clothes

adjective

Lower in rank, status, or quality.

Usage examples:

Schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country

noun

A person lower than another in rank, status, or ability.

Usage examples:

Her social and intellectual inferiors

adjective

For or denoting young or younger people.

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Junior tennis

noun

A person who is a specified number of years younger than someone else.

Usage examples:

He's five years her junior

adjective

Less advanced, or lower in rank

Usage examples:

The junior varsity, alfredo is a junior partner in the law firm., he was born in april, so he’s thr…

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

adjective

(of work) not requiring much skill and lacking prestige.

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Menial factory jobs

noun

A person with a menial job.

Usage examples:

Despite tall claims that a determined attempt to eradicate child labour has been initiated, hundred…

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

A follower or subordinate of a powerful person, typically one who is unscrupulous or carries out orders unquestioningly.

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One of hitler's myrmidons

noun

Someone who follows and obeys a powerful person or authority, even when this means doing bad things for them

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They each claimed that they were only doing their job - the standard reply from the myrmidons of au…

noun

A thing that holds something in place.

Usage examples:

A guitar string retainer

noun

An amount of money that you pay to someone in advance so that the person will work for you when needed

Usage examples:

He was on a $150,000 retainer from lloyd's of london.

noun

An amount of money that you pay to a lawyer, consultant (= someone paid to give expert advice or training), etc. in order to be sure that they can work for you when you need them to

Usage examples:

The firm retained white as a consultant, paying him a $5,000 retainer., get/be on/receive a retaine…

noun

An agricultural labourer bound by the feudal system who was tied to working on his lord's estate.

noun

A person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.

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Financially they were well enough established to be able to employ a domestic servant.

noun

A person who is employed to do work for another person, esp. to work in another person’s home doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning

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A civil/public servant

adjective

Lower in rank or position.

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His subordinate officers

noun

A person under the authority or control of another within an organization.

Usage examples:

He was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates

verb

Treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else.

Usage examples:

Practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency

noun

A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.

Usage examples:

Liege homage involved the vassal admitting his obligation to pay all services, including the provis…

noun

A person in the middle ages who promises to be loyal to a lord (= a man of high social rank) who will protect him or her