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

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

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