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
With Black Americans blocked from well-paying federal jobs and promotion, an already existing earning gap between black and white civil servants only increased.
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Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne lost her job as education minister, replaced by civil servant Edouard Geffray.
—CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Decisions on police security are taken by RAVEC, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, and the February 2024 High Court judgment described a telephone call between its chair in 2020, Sir Richard Mottram, and Britain's top civil servant, cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Eli’s life, by contrast, remained ordinary, that of a career civil servant who moved his family from grubby Brooklyn to suburban Highland Park, New Jersey.
—David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
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Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne lost her job as education minister, replaced by civil servant Edouard Geffray.
—CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Decisions on police security are taken by RAVEC, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee, and the February 2024 High Court judgment described a telephone call between its chair in 2020, Sir Richard Mottram, and Britain's top civil servant, cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Eli’s life, by contrast, remained ordinary, that of a career civil servant who moved his family from grubby Brooklyn to suburban Highland Park, New Jersey.
—David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil servant
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Professors, writers, journalists, engineers, public servants—around a hundred of them—have been killed.—
Mohammed R. Mhawish,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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Thank you all for being here, and thank you for supporting public service and public servants.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Oct. 2025
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Hernandez, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, confessed soon after his brother-in-law told detectives the store clerk may have been a suspect, The New York Times reported.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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Anyone with court business is directed to contact the appropriate clerk’s office to find out what is still operating.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
17 Oct. 2025
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He Weidong, China’s number two general, and navy admiral Miao Hua, the Chinese military’s former top political officer, are the latest senior military officials to be targeted in a campaign against corruption in the People’s Liberation Army.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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In a letter obtained by PEOPLE that was sent to students and faculty in the Neshaminy School District, officials confirmed Duffy's death.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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Paying the price for the company’s decisions are the 70 full-time park employees and hundreds of seasonal workers, along with the hundreds of thousands of annual guests who will have one less form of affordable entertainment.—
Shannon Pettypiece,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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Intel now counts 88,400 employees—down from 124,100 this time last year.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
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And the policies are projected to have far-ranging effects on most areas of business, including a potential loss of hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers in sectors like information and educational and health services.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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His focus on worker satisfaction drew loyalty in-house and exasperation from Wall Street.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Their innovation is to replace the demagogue’s roar with the bureaucrat’s moral superiority.—
Alexis Coe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Amid the aftermath, as aid groups and Taliban bureaucrats were assisting those injured and left homeless by the earthquake, other Taliban officials twice suspended most internet and cellular reception throughout Afghanistan, complicating aid efforts.—
NPR,
NPR,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20servant. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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