as in officials
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 servants
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.
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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
With Black Americans blocked from well-paying federal jobs and promotion, an already existing earning gap between black and white civil servants only increased.
—Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Thank you to the civil servants who made this happen.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Immigration judges, who are more like civil servants, can approve or deny a final order of deportation.
—Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden had issued executive orders to improve access and opportunities for civil servants with disabilities.
—E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
In July, the UK government announced a deal with Google’s cloud business to upgrade its IT system and train civil servants.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
What’s most important, both men say, is to allow the career civil servants at BLS to carry out their jobs.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
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
With Black Americans blocked from well-paying federal jobs and promotion, an already existing earning gap between black and white civil servants only increased.
—Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Thank you to the civil servants who made this happen.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Immigration judges, who are more like civil servants, can approve or deny a final order of deportation.
—Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden had issued executive orders to improve access and opportunities for civil servants with disabilities.
—E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
In July, the UK government announced a deal with Google’s cloud business to upgrade its IT system and train civil servants.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
What’s most important, both men say, is to allow the career civil servants at BLS to carry out their jobs.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil servants
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Several people were being treated at the scene after being knocked to the ground and trampled as those in the crowd ran for cover, CNN affiliate KYW reported, citing officials.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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Several trust officials did not immediately respond to email or cellphone messages Friday seeking comment.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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However, as public servants working for a law enforcement agency, every employee at ICE is held to the highest standard of conduct.—
David Goodhue
October 24,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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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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Store employees would celebrate news of Auburn road wins by throwing ticker tape onto power lines.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 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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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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In the first two years of the pandemic, negotiating with bureaucrats in person was impossible, but getting to them virtually wasn’t always easy either — ironically because of the very bandwidth issues that 2Africa was trying to address.—
Samanth Subramanian,
The Dial,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The airport has put out green donation bins accepting nonperishable food and personal care items for unpaid federal airport workers, according to a social media post from Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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By law, federal workers are supposed to receive back pay once the shutdown ends, but the White House has attempted to cast doubt on that, NPR's Scott Horsley tells Up First.—
NPR,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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When Burnett was a senior at McGavock High School, her boyfriend's father — Metro Council Member Mansfield Douglas III, a close friend of Tennessean editor John Seigenthaler — told her the newsroom was looking for copy clerks.—
Brad Schmitt,
Nashville Tennessean,
20 Oct. 2025
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These are post offices, clerks of court, libraries, and local government offices.—
Michelle Baran,
AFAR Media,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Civil servants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20servants. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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