civil servant
a civil-service employee.
Origin of civil servant
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How to use civil servant in a sentence
Macron excelled at France's elite schools, including the civil-servant powerhouse Ecole Nationale d'Administration.
This Scary-Smart New Minister of Economy Might Just Turn France Around | Tracy McNicoll | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPrescott was then at the centre of a media storm about his affair with a civil servant, Tracey Temple.
Prosecutors Allege Affair Between Rebekah Brooks And Andy Coulson | Peter Jukes, Nico Hines | October 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA retired civil servant in the suburbs of Athens doesn't produce any surplus at all.
His clotted rhetoric speaks to his 21 years as a civil servant, but his meaning and intention are clear enough.
There is Ursula the civil servant bravely patrolling a London bombed to pieces during the Blitz.
A civil servant of the Republic had no legal right to sever himself from his engagements without permission.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziBut the capable civil servant never admitted the justice of being passed over.
The King's Post | R. C. TombsStimpson was a civil servant, but his life-work was cabinet-making.
The House by the River | A. P. HerbertDuring the Commonwealth Marvell was content to be a civil servant.
Andrew Marvell | Augustine BirrellAll 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
a member of the civil service
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