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
Noun
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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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She was charged with disorderly intoxication, battery on an officer/firefighter/EMT, resisting arrest with violence and threatening a public servant, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.—
Diane J. Cho,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Davis asks her clerk to print out a map.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Law clerk Jason Treul, 32, of Anaheim, California, was sent home.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Earlier this month, officials announced that the city of Little Rock had reached an agreement with firefighters to extend a union contract through 2027.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 Oct. 2025
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After an effort to create a Falls of the Ohio national park fell short in 1967, Kentucky and Indiana officials struggled to stop the falls from becoming a garbage dump.—
Leo Bertucci,
Louisville Courier Journal,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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And the best and the brightest will want to become bureaucrats, not entrepreneurs.—
Ugo Troiano,
Oc Register,
25 Oct. 2025
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What follows is a story told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and bureaucrats in charge of the nation's nuclear war machine.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20servant. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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