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 Thailand ordered civil servants to take the stairs, Vietnam is encouraging workers to log in from home, and the Philippines is pushing for a four-day work week. —

Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026 And third, the core AXIS study team, which was headquartered at Goddard Space Flight Center, was dominated by NASA civil servants who were furloughed during the 6-week-long shutdown in late 2025. —

Big Think, 11 Mar. 2026 Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered civil servants to conserve energy and work from home among a raft of measures that also include a suspension of overseas trips and using stairs instead of escalators. —

Rebecca Shabad, NBC news, 10 Mar. 2026 Thailand has suspended overseas travel for civil servants and urged them to take stairs instead of elevators. —

Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for civil servant

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As public servants, your first loyalty should be to public school students whose parents cannot afford private schools even with a voucher.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
Lewis was convicted of four felony charges (one count of attempting to influence a public servant and three counts of forgery).

— Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2026