"jack-in-office" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 8:",
          "text": "But a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of expressing them, appears to be regarded by everyone in authority as much worse than the worst criminal, and all the 'jacks-in-office' unite to kick him to death if they can.",
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        {
          "text": "1967, C. P. Snow, foreword to A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy, 1948.\nChapel at Trinity was compulsory. Hardy told the Dean, …, that he could not conscientiously attend. The Dean, who must have been a jack-in-office, insisted that Hardy should write to his parents and tell them so."
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        "A self-important but minor official."
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          "word": "bureaucrat"
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          "word": "official"
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          "word": "also: Thesaurus:bureaucrat"
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          "derogatory",
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          "self-important",
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          "minor",
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        "(derogatory) A self-important but minor official."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
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          "tags": [
            "archaic"
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          "word": "jack guardant"
        },
        {
          "word": "petty functionary"
        },
        {
          "word": "jack in office"
        }
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        "derogatory"
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  "word": "jack-in-office"
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      "word": "bureaucrat"
    },
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      "word": "official"
    },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 8:",
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          "text": "1967, C. P. Snow, foreword to A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy, 1948.\nChapel at Trinity was compulsory. Hardy told the Dean, …, that he could not conscientiously attend. The Dean, who must have been a jack-in-office, insisted that Hardy should write to his parents and tell them so."
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      "word": "jack guardant"
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      "word": "petty functionary"
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      "word": "jack in office"
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  "word": "jack-in-office"
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