mandarin
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
A powerful, senior official, especially one in the civil service regarded as remote and influential.
Policy was in practice decided by a handful of Whitehall mandarins whom no voter had ever heard of.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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