Thesaurus results for CIVIL SERVANT

civil servant

noun

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as in public servant

a worker in a government agency took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department

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Recent Examples of civil servant Brown, who has taken a leading role in demanding accountability for Britons with ties to Epstein, sent letters to six police forces suggesting that civil servants be questioned about Mountbatten-Windsor’s decade as a trade envoy, before he was forced to step down in 2011. —

Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 23 Feb. 2026 The civil servant said there was no proper recording of the spending and called out senior officials for turning a blind eye. —

Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 23 Feb. 2026 Chichi, meanwhile, has moved to Tokyo and become a civil servant. —

Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026 Last year, approximately three hundred and fifty-two thousand civil servants left their jobs, fulfilling one of the Administration’s stated goals of dismantling the government bureaucracy and demoralizing the federal workforce. —

Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for civil servant

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Peters and Lewis were both convicted of attempting to influence a public servant, a crime that involves using deception or a threat to try to get a public official to act in a certain way.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2026
Two cases with significant differences Peters and Lewis were both convicted of attempting to influence a public servant, a crime that involves using deception or a threat to try to get a public official to act in a certain way.

— Colleen Slevin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026