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civil servant
noun
- a civil-service employee.
civil servant
noun
- a member of the civil service
Word History and Origins
Origin of civil servant1
Example Sentences
Macron excelled at France's elite schools, including the civil-servant powerhouse Ecole Nationale d'Administration.
Prescott was then at the centre of a media storm about his affair with a civil servant, Tracey Temple.
A retired civil servant in the suburbs of Athens doesn't produce any surplus at all.
His clotted rhetoric speaks to his 21 years as a civil servant, but his meaning and intention are clear enough.
There is Ursula the civil servant bravely patrolling a London bombed to pieces during the Blitz.
A civil servant of the Republic had no legal right to sever himself from his engagements without permission.
But the capable Civil Servant never admitted the justice of being passed over.
Stimpson was a Civil Servant, but his life-work was cabinet-making.
During the Commonwealth Marvell was content to be a civil servant.
All traces of the Terran civil servant, clumsy and uncomfortable in his ill-fitting clothes, had dropped away.
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