PUBLIC SERVANTS Synonyms: 30 Similar Words

public servants

noun

plural of public servant

as in officials

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 servants The students on Thursday asked public servants to prevent outgoing officials from destroying documentation or evidence of potential wrongdoing. — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026 Kushner’s esteem for public servants has likewise tended to hover somewhere between condescension and outright disgust. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026 Nonprofit leaders on Thursday said the administration's decision to drop the appeal will provide relief to many public servants. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo told Parliament on Thursday that the ban on Waze applies only to public servants carrying out official duties. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 Assaults are up, almost 2,500 assaults this year alone on police officers, felony assaults, and public servants in New York City. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Career public servants are people, not pawns, and no one who has devoted their life to serving the American public should have their good name destroyed for partisan, political gain. — Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 13 Oct. 2026 The Dominican government also offers Creole language training for some public servants. — Kendall Medford, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026 Twenty-five years later, South Florida will honor the lives lost and sacrifices made by first responders and other public servants on 9/11. — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The proposal returned to the Baltimore County Council Tuesday, reigniting discussion over compensation for the county’s highest-ranking officials as some government employees continue pressing for higher pay.

— Natalie Jones, Baltimore Sun, 28 Oct. 2026
Unusual weather conditions played a role, officials said, with the number of extreme heat warning days tripling from five in 2025 to 15 so far this year.

— Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of officials

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The news, announced Thursday, comes after season four ended with a dramatic scene at the G7 summit, raising questions about the careers of a number of the series’ long-term civil servants.

— Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026
The postwar model of a large welfare and regulatory state, run by a class of civil servants charged with modernizing the economy, tempering market forces and defining the common good, has run its course.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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Thames Valley officers in February arrested the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, on suspicion of misconduct in public office based on information released in the Epstein Files.

— Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026
No descriptions of the vehicles or drivers were immediately available but officers encouraged anyone with information to call the CHP’s South Sacramento office at 916-897-5600.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of officers

Noun

According to local media reports, employees in Area A, where the laboratory is located, were instructed to shelter in place for approximately 30 minutes.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
For perspective, 41% goes to coverage of other brand-name specialty drugs taken by 6,500 employees.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of employees

Noun

Vying for dominance as well are the haughty, self-serving bureaucrats of the area’s bustling capital of South Wood (Jemaine Clement, Marc Evan Jackson), who pull their political strings from the relative safety of the grand Pittock Mansion.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Half of them want to hand health care over to government bureaucrats, the other half to corporate bureaucrats.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of bureaucrats

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But the movement has widened to include workers demanding relief from rising living costs, making the government’s task broader than resolving a dispute over university admissions.

— Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Also according to the emergency service, consecutive Russian strikes on a shopping center in Kharkiv injured four people late on Saturday, including three rescue workers.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

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