High Ranking Bureaucrat Crossword Clue

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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: MANDARIN

Updated: October 13, 2023 by Nicoli Westwood

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2	39%	14		Top-ranking bureaucrat in a government department
3	29%	5		A term used to describe a British colonial bureaucrat

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We think the answer is "MANDARIN" which means:

noun

• The dialect of chinese spoken in beijing and adopted as the official language for all of china
• 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
• A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
• Any high government official or bureaucrat
• A high public official of imperial china
• A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of china

adjective

• Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist

An example sentence would be:

• "She spoke fluent mandarin and was able to communicate easily with the locals."
• "He decided to study mandarin to expand his language skills."

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The Guardian Quick13 May 2020	Across 17
The Guardian Quick10 Jan 2012	Down 5
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