civil servant
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civil servant
noun
a civil-service employee.
Origin:
1790–1800
1790–1800
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| civil servant | |
| —n | |
| a member of the civil service | |
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He had been a senior civil servant in the pre-war government, specialising in financial matters.
The national-security chief, the top civil servant in the power ministry and the attorney-general have all been ousted.
The others were bankers, but he was a civil servant.
Born into the landed gentry, he worked as a civil servant while writing and editing for radical journals.
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