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
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The former Congolese civil servant spent much of the last two years in fatigues, as the head of a coalition of rebel groups fighting for control of the country’s east.
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Sophie Neiman, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2025
The first marked for cuts were aid workers, educators, scientists, researchers, refugee officers and other civil servants who had served across Democratic and Republican administrations.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Franklin Delano Roosevelt fired civil servants for ideological reasons, attempted to pack the Supreme Court, and—violating precedent, though not the Constitution—won a third term, and then a fourth.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
But the shareholders meeting yesterday showed the board remains divided with veteran civil servant Philip Yeo, a CDL board member since 2009, voicing his disapproval over the hasty appointment of Jennifer Duong Young and Wong Su-Yen to the board in February.
—Jonathan Burgos, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Sophie Neiman, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2025
The first marked for cuts were aid workers, educators, scientists, researchers, refugee officers and other civil servants who had served across Democratic and Republican administrations.
—Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Franklin Delano Roosevelt fired civil servants for ideological reasons, attempted to pack the Supreme Court, and—violating precedent, though not the Constitution—won a third term, and then a fourth.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
But the shareholders meeting yesterday showed the board remains divided with veteran civil servant Philip Yeo, a CDL board member since 2009, voicing his disapproval over the hasty appointment of Jennifer Duong Young and Wong Su-Yen to the board in February.
—Jonathan Burgos, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civil%20servant. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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