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civil servant

noun

Definitions

  1. A person employed in the civil service

    A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.

    • Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
    • Civil servants in the MoT gave a fresh note of caution to the Minister concerning BR's estimates, because those for electrification from Euston had gone from a budgeted £75m to an actual £160m.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA