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public servant

noun

Definition of public servant

as in official

a person who holds a public office the new governor made a vow that he would always remember why he was called a public servant

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a worker in a government agency concerned that the new federal agency would just add another slew of public servants to the government payroll

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Recent Examples of public servant But, at the heart of it is what appears to be a very ugly feud between two public servants. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 7 Aug. 2026 This blatant fealty over objectivity perverts the process by choosing personal loyalists instead of independent public servants. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026 This blatant expression of fealty over objectivity perverts the process by choosing personal loyalists instead of independent public servants. — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026 He has been charged in Pierce County with nine counts of unlawful recreational fishing in the second degree and one count of making a false or misleading statement to a public servant. — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for public servant

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His son Jack, who had attended the event in California, was instrumental in making these mazes happen, Universal officials have said.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
Chinese officials said 558 people were missing after a mudslide at a land crossing in Tibet’s Gyirong county, including 260 foreign nationals.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026

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His father, a welder, left school after sixth grade; his mother, a civil servant, didn’t finish high school.

— Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 17 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

Definition of civil servant

Noun

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

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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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