Synonyms of civil servants

civil servants

noun

plural of civil servant

as in officials

a worker in a government agency

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• officials
• public servants
• employees
• bureaucrats
• workers
• clerks
• mandarins
• functionaries
• officeholders
• officiaries
• hands
• jobholders
• underlings
• hirelings

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of civil servants

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

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

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

Such a large amount is a shock to ordinary civil servants who earn six or seven thousand yuan a month. — Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

This year, Rosstat stopped providing data on the salaries of civil servants, teachers, and doctors; on Russians’ spending on housing and utilities; and on household income and expenditure. — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026

Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has become central to a local corruption scandal, due to the conduct of civil servants who allegedly accepted bribes to grant exorbitant construction contracts for public work. — News Desk, Artforum, 31 Aug. 2026

Other governments, including the US, have their own rules and disclosure requirements, but beyond the breadth of the controls in China, the sheer number of people affected is striking – and reaches far beyond civil servants. — Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026