civil servants

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of civil servant.
  civil servant

  noun

  a civil-service employee.

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civil servants

But prior to this, some in China – ranging from civil servants and state-owned enterprise employees to ordinary citizens – already faced restrictions from going to certain countries.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Survivors, including tens of thousands of residents, non-emergency civil servants, commuters and students, have to display symptoms first.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

There was a “recognition that donnish brainpower—whether embodied in scientific experts, staff office strategists, temporary civil servants or economists tasked with Lend-Lease negotiations—had played a significant part in winning the war.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Foreign Office has given civil servants extra payments for working in areas where there is a high level of danger, or high risks to health, for the past 30 years.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

We had, for instance, some civil servants, some nurses, clerical workers, salesmen from the department stores.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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