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 In the first part of the film, Grossman rewinds the tapes of the 1996 trip, organized by a Brazilian civil servant and Swedish journalist Erling Söderström to meet the Korubo tribe, who chose to live far away from civilization. —

Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026 Thailand has suspended overseas travel for civil servants and urged them to take stairs instead of elevators. —

Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026 There are cash shortages, and the salaries for civil servants haven’t been paid out, even for many Houthi fighters. —

Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 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 See All Example Sentences for civil servant

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Noun

The South Suburbs mourn the loss of a longtime and beloved public servant.

— Jermont Terry, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
For an-hour-and-half, more than two dozen people shared their memories of Metayer Bowen, and she was repeatedly called a public servant rather than a politician.

— Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026