Thesaurus results for CIVIL SERVANT

civil servant

noun

Definition of civil servant

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 The proposals are first subject to formal verification by civil servants and after which there is a final vote. — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 The newest proposal to plug them — a nondisclosure agreement that federal agencies may roll out to more than 2 million civil servants — is unlikely to improve matters. — Editorial, Boston Herald, 16 July 2026 Its senior leadership was appointed by the Hamas administration, while its hospitals and public health services were staffed largely by career doctors, medical workers, and civil servants. — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 7 July 2026 Chloe Barker, a civil servant from West Yorkshire, England, traveled to Prague with a friend on June 26, per Kennedy News and Media. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for civil servant

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Using crowdsourcing techniques, VroniPlag Wiki in Germany and Dissernet in Russia have exposed numerous instances of plagiarism by public servants in their dissertations and academic publications.

— Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
However, the former public servant was ultimately banned from leaving the country.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of public servant

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He would be sentenced to four years of formal probation, according to the clerk’s office.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Trump posted on Truth Social about the former federal appellate court clerk and Princeton University and Harvard Law School graduate.

— Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of clerk

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In Brazil, Statista gathered 900,000 evaluations from employees across a wide range of sectors.

— Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
This includes owners, coaches, players, other team employees, game officials, and employees of the league office, NFL Films, NFL Network or any other NFL business.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of employee

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During the early days of the pandemic, Prem and his team dispatched medical staff to Singapore’s checkpoints for virus screening, as well as to foreign worker dormitories to care for workers who fell ill.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
At the same time, many of these tech companies, like Microsoft and IBM, have been providing accessible professional certificate programs to workers across the globe in hopes of closing the skills gap.

— Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of worker

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Darline Graham, 62, is a longtime state bureaucrat in South Carolina government who since 2019 has worked as commissioner of the South Carolina Commission for the Blind.

— Joey Garrison, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
The bureaucrats who failed to prevent the fraud often remain anonymous.

— Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 19 Aug. 2026

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