minor official; to be an official

acting magistrate; temporary official (in former times)

style of governing (of minor official); achievement in office

minor official

Ministry of Appointments (in imperial China)

bureaucrat; official

(old) subordinate; underling

(literary) former subordinate

a corrupt official

prison guard; jailer (old)

low-level government official (in former times)

corrupt officials

traitor minister and corrupt official (idiom); abuse and corruption

grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption

grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption