Converse of object

• play: In Ninotchka ( 1939 ), playing a Soviet apparatchik, she goes from macho, humorless Russian, to glamorous Parisian party girl.

Adjective modifier

• communist: He remains, in his atrophied heart, a shrewd Communist apparatchik.

• former: The former apparatchik was Joseph Stiglitz, ex-chief economist of the World Bank.

Noun used with modifier

• party: I prefer to vote for a person, rather than a party apparatchik.