Thesaurus results for PUBLIC SERVANT

public servant

noun

Definition of public servant

as in official

a person who holds a public office the new governor made a vow that he would always remember why he was called a public servant

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as in civil servant

a worker in a government agency concerned that the new federal agency would just add another slew of public servants to the government payroll

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Recent Examples of public servant The union fought back in federal court and saved their contract, but thousands of career public servants have been forced out of federal service. — Brendan Griffith, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026 Why Connecticut Should Lead Connecticut has a unique opportunity to lead the nation in civics education because Senator Lieberman was one of its most distinguished public servants. — Clarine Nardi Riddle, Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2026 Billy McFatridge, 29, has been charged in a state district court in Travis County with making a terroristic threat against a public servant. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026 From animal welfare advocates and public servants to working and therapy animals, the honorees will be recognized at the ASPCA’s annual Humane Awards in New York City. — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for public servant

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Noun

Election officials have said there was simply no way to carry out a complete overhaul in the weeks before the midterms.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Airport officials said the additional revenue would help pay for new parking amenities, as well as rising debt and operating costs.

— Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of official

Noun

The money was nominally to pay civil servants and prop up infrastructure in a territory sequestered by an Israeli blockade, but many observers agreed that Hamas diverted a significant sum to its military wing.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
However, just over a week before the election, Expo magazine published a report alleging that a civil servant working in parliament for the Sweden Democrats had spread Russian state narratives on social networks.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of civil servant

Noun

During Thursday's hearing, Judge Paul Scoggin granted Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro bond.

— TIM SULLIVAN, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
Less than two weeks after departing the Kansas City Current, former head coach and sporting director Vlatko Andonovski is set to take over the last-place Chicago Stars as the fellow National Women’s Soccer League club’s chief soccer officer.

— PJ Green September 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of officer

Noun

Florey also argued that the County Board cannot interfere with how the clerk secures services or dictate if a particular service, such as printing of ballots, must be bid out.

— Alicia Fabbre, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
The local election authority, the Saline County clerk, still lists Gibson as receiving the highest number of votes in its official results.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of clerk

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The project is currently on track to be considered at a zoning administrator meeting in early 2027.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Commission on Elections Chairman Erwin Garcia reported that Cotabato City has been put under the commission’s control, with an administrator to be designated after a shooting late Sunday killed three people and injured 15 others.

— Teresa Cerojano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of administrator

Noun

The reviewer may technically be the person receiving the response, but potential customers, employees, journalists and business partners are the ones who will read it months or even years later.

— Evan Nierman, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
County employees found the dead birds Sunday morning and worked into the afternoon clearing them.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of employee

Noun

About 50,000 doses are intended for front-line and health workers, while 20,000 doses will be used in a clinical trial to study whether the vaccine protects against Bundibugyo virus.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
Many became lifelong friends, and role models for me as husbands, fathers, workers and community servants.

— Tom Strong, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of worker

Noun

Nearly 30 years after a million starving aliens were stranded near Johannesburg, a bureaucrat tasked with forcibly relocating them is exposed to an alien chemical and starts to experience changes.

— Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026
Borrowers need to keep opportunities to educate themselves about the nuances of credit cards, not cede for some bureaucrat to decide what risk should cost.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

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