Thesaurus results for CIVIL SERVANTS

civil servants

noun

plural of civil servant

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 news, announced Thursday, comes after season four ended with a dramatic scene at the G7 summit, raising questions about the careers of a number of the series’ long-term civil servants. — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026 The postwar model of a large welfare and regulatory state, run by a class of civil servants charged with modernizing the economy, tempering market forces and defining the common good, has run its course. — Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026 At the meeting, ministry Undersecretary Khaled Al-Raqab told the union that the amount was not a tax, but rather a donation sought by the ministry to help pay civil servants in the strip. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 Britain’s 2025 Copilot trial, with 20,000 civil servants, showed workers saved about 26 minutes a day. — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026 Local governments are running deficits, with many struggling to pay teachers and civil servants their salaries and benefits on time. — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026 The federal government had also been squeezing the region economically, by withholding funds needed to pay Tigray’s civil servants and limiting access to banks and fuel, according to the TPLF. — Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026 Experts say the Houthis have struggled to pay salaries to civil servants, including public sector doctors and diverted most tax revenues to their military wing. — Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 The junta has tried to compel civil servants living in Myanmar to come back to work. — Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026

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Noun

County officials estimated the increase would generate about $250,000 annually for the county’s general fund.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Democrats fear interference and voter intimidation as his Justice Department threatens to prosecute local election officials.

— Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of officials

Noun

The students on Thursday asked public servants to prevent outgoing officials from destroying documentation or evidence of potential wrongdoing.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
Kushner’s esteem for public servants has likewise tended to hover somewhere between condescension and outright disgust.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of public servants

Noun

Instead, key employees billed taxpayers for air travel and hotel expenses while commuting from Denver and Texas to the Sacramento office.

— Julie Watts, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2026
Samsung has been monitoring where certain departing employees went — to signal to remaining staff that moving to competitors would be difficult — according to a former employee.

— Jenny Lee, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of employees

Noun

Vying for dominance as well are the haughty, self-serving bureaucrats of the area’s bustling capital of South Wood (Jemaine Clement, Marc Evan Jackson), who pull their political strings from the relative safety of the grand Pittock Mansion.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Half of them want to hand health care over to government bureaucrats, the other half to corporate bureaucrats.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of bureaucrats

Noun

Parks workers who don't comply with the new policy could face discipline, officials said, adding, the policy also instructs them to not engage in any verbal or physical altercations with ICE agents.

— Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
People who earn at least 50,000 pounds ($67,000) a year will only have to wait five years, as will public-sector workers including doctors, nurses and teachers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of workers

Noun

And while most early in-person voting sites wrapped up on Sunday, local clerks could extend early voting into Monday.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
The procedural dispute centers on a requirement to distribute amendment text to circuit court clerks for public posting, which lawmakers retroactively repealed.

— Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of clerks

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