civil servant
noun
1
: a member of a civil service
2
: a member of the administrative staff of an international agency
Examples of civil servant in a Sentence
took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department
Recent Examples on the Web
The strategic shift has brought criticism from former NYPD officials and civil liberties groups who say police leaders shouldn’t use public resources to advance their own policy agenda or attack other civil servants.
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Jake Offenhartz, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
The list included a house in Dakar — built on land that was given to him by the government as part of a program allocating land to civil servants.
—Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
His team has been preparing an overhaul of the federal government designed to install Trump loyalists in posts mostly occupied, during his first term, by nonpartisan civil servants and appointees who had no strong ideological affinity for Trumpism.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
While top-level agency employees are political appointees who advance a president’s agenda, civil servants are charged with implementing those policies in a nonpartisan manner.
—Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
The government hopes to move up to 1.9 million people to Nusantara by 2045, with civil servants possibly moving as early as this year.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 15 Feb. 2024
Blume is the civil servant in charge of fighting antisemitsm in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
—Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2024
The fee is a particularly tough pill for civil servants, many of whom don’t have a choice where they’re assigned, said Paul Caminiti, a public school teacher who drives in from Staten Island.
—Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
Since seizing control of Gaza nearly 17 years ago, Hamas has been operating a government bureaucracy with tens of thousands of civil servants, including teachers, traffic cops and civil police who operate separately from the group's secretive military wing.
—TIME, 3 Feb. 2024
Jake Offenhartz, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
The list included a house in Dakar — built on land that was given to him by the government as part of a program allocating land to civil servants.
—Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
His team has been preparing an overhaul of the federal government designed to install Trump loyalists in posts mostly occupied, during his first term, by nonpartisan civil servants and appointees who had no strong ideological affinity for Trumpism.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
While top-level agency employees are political appointees who advance a president’s agenda, civil servants are charged with implementing those policies in a nonpartisan manner.
—Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
The government hopes to move up to 1.9 million people to Nusantara by 2045, with civil servants possibly moving as early as this year.
—Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 15 Feb. 2024
Blume is the civil servant in charge of fighting antisemitsm in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
—Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 9 Mar. 2024
The fee is a particularly tough pill for civil servants, many of whom don’t have a choice where they’re assigned, said Paul Caminiti, a public school teacher who drives in from Staten Island.
—Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
Since seizing control of Gaza nearly 17 years ago, Hamas has been operating a government bureaucracy with tens of thousands of civil servants, including teachers, traffic cops and civil police who operate separately from the group's secretive military wing.
—TIME, 3 Feb. 2024
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civil%20servant. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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