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civil service

noun

those branches of public service concerned with all governmental administrative functions outside the armed services.
the body of persons employed in these branches.
a system or method of appointing government employees on the basis of competitive examinations, rather than by political patronage.

civil service

the service responsible for the public administration of the government of a country. It excludes the legislative, judicial, and military branches. Members of the civil service have no official political allegiance and are not generally affected by changes of governments
the members of the civil service collectively

civil service

The nonmilitary personnel who work for a government, applying its laws and regulations.

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First recorded in 1775–85

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It also eliminates the Schedule F classification which took away protections for some civil service employees.

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Their responses have been eye-opening, everything from reimagining capitalism to launching a domestic draft civil service.

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He resegregated the federal civil service after decades of integration.

So there was real suspicion of the civil service, that we were not making the kinds of recommendations that Lighthizer would want to hear.

The newspaper said De Croo also appointed De Sutter, a member of Groen, the Flemish Green Party, as his civil service minister.

Paxman suspects that former British Home Secretary Michael Howard had interfered in an internal civil-service disciplinary matter.

The particular reform that irked Conkling was the then-novel proposal to eliminate patronage in federal civil service hiring.

The pair will reportedly wed in a small civil service in London next month.

“I did apply for the civil service when I was at college,” said Iannucci.

Aware that a prestigious career in the civil service was now closed to him, Hong experienced searing visions for the next 40 days.

In the good old days of yore there was little trouble in obtaining admission to the Civil Service.

American soldiers who have less than six months to serve can apply for permission to be examined for the civil service.

The fact that she was not surrounded by any soldiers or civil service men shows that she has nothing to fear from assassins.

Others of less merit were detached for the civil service, and in that also their careers were at the imperial mercy.

He will see a whole civil service turned into a bureau of information, a department of espionage.

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