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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Prospect also has civil servant members across a variety of government departments.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
The government has also followed through on Vought’s earlier threat to fire a massive number of civil servants if the shutdown were not averted.
—Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2025
These missives forced career civil servants, many of them furloughed, to become unwilling messengers for partisan ends.
—Stephanie A, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Five Sudanese citizens — a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance volunteer and two street boys who make money collecting plastic bottles — come together to share their memories, hopes and dreams in Khartoum, a caleidoscopic documentary about the civil war that started in the country in 2023.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
The government has also followed through on Vought’s earlier threat to fire a massive number of civil servants if the shutdown were not averted.
—Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2025
These missives forced career civil servants, many of them furloughed, to become unwilling messengers for partisan ends.
—Stephanie A, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Five Sudanese citizens — a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance volunteer and two street boys who make money collecting plastic bottles — come together to share their memories, hopes and dreams in Khartoum, a caleidoscopic documentary about the civil war that started in the country in 2023.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for civil servant
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civil%20servant. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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