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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Russian чиновник (činovnik).

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chinovnik (plural chinovniks)

  1. A bureaucrat in the Tsarist Russian government.
    • 1998, Nikolai Bukharin, How It All Began: The Prison Novel, page 50:
      Ivan Antonych was probably the only one of the Russian chinovniks in Byeltsy who spoke with the Jewish representatives in a humane way and did not show any favoritism toward the Russian element.

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