civil servant

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noun
  1. a civil-service employee.

Origin of civil servant

1
First recorded in 1790–1800

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How to use civil servant in a sentence

  • 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.

    The King's Post | R. C. Tombs
  • Stimpson was a civil servant, but his life-work was cabinet-making.

    The House by the River | A. P. Herbert
  • During the Commonwealth Marvell was content to be a civil servant.

    Andrew Marvell | Augustine Birrell
  • All traces of the Terran civil servant, clumsy and uncomfortable in his ill-fitting clothes, had dropped away.

    The Door Through Space | Marion Zimmer Bradley

British Dictionary definitions for civil servant

civil servant

noun
  1. a member of the civil service

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