civil servant
noun
1
: a member of a civil service
2
: a member of the administrative staff of an international agency
Examples of civil servant in a Sentence
took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department
Recent Examples on the Web
His father was a civil servant, his mother managed the family’s home.
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Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
The Chinese Civil War was led by Mao, who was from a moderately well-off family and studied a variety of subjects such as law, economics, and political theory, and Zhou Enlai, who was from a scholarly middle-class family of civil servants.
—Ray Dalio, TIME, 25 June 2024
Record numbers of federal senior civil servants quit as early as 2017, and by the time of Biden’s inauguration in 2021, several key agencies had been quite literally decimated.
—Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Advocacy groups and labor unions are challenging the law on humanitarian bases; the UK’s civil servants union claims the scheme would require them to break international law in carrying out their roles.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 4 May 2024
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Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
The Chinese Civil War was led by Mao, who was from a moderately well-off family and studied a variety of subjects such as law, economics, and political theory, and Zhou Enlai, who was from a scholarly middle-class family of civil servants.
—Ray Dalio, TIME, 25 June 2024
Record numbers of federal senior civil servants quit as early as 2017, and by the time of Biden’s inauguration in 2021, several key agencies had been quite literally decimated.
—Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Advocacy groups and labor unions are challenging the law on humanitarian bases; the UK’s civil servants union claims the scheme would require them to break international law in carrying out their roles.
—Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 4 May 2024
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civil%20servant. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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