Synonyms of civil servant

civil servant

noun

as in public servant

a worker in a government agency

took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department

Synonyms & Similar Words

• public servant
• clerk
• official
• employee
• worker
• bureaucrat
• mandarin
• functionary
• officiary
• officeholder
• underling
• hireling
• hand
• jobholder

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of civil servant

According to a July 23 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), NASA lost a fifth of its civil servant workforce in the past year, with impacts to more than two dozen major projects. — Eric Niiler, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026

The money was nominally to pay civil servants and prop up infrastructure in a territory sequestered by an Israeli blockade, but many observers agreed that Hamas diverted a significant sum to its military wing. — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

However, just over a week before the election, Expo magazine published a report alleging that a civil servant working in parliament for the Sweden Democrats had spread Russian state narratives on social networks. — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026

Unfortunately, many, specifically our dedicated federal civil servants, have been undermined, laid off, pushed out. — Brendan Griffith, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026