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noun

a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.

a person in the service of another.

a person employed by the government: a public servant.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English < Old French, noun use of present participle of servir to serve; see -ant

Related forms

serv·ant·less, adjective

serv·ant·like, adjective

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Your editorial on servant girls deals with the subject in a thoroughly practical manner.

It has nothing to do with being a servant or being elite.

The second servant said that he had received two talents, and he had made two talents more.

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Your editorial on servant girls deals with the subject in a thoroughly practical manner.

It has nothing to do with being a servant or being elite.

The second servant said that he had received two talents, and he had made two talents more.

Permission was granted for our temporary shelter, and a servant led us to the nobleman's house.

Naturally they paid to doctors, they are really paid servant of drug companies.

Certainly, a headless, handless body wouldn't make for a good servant.

Put differently, a public servant has no right to a private life.

To no avail: the top civil servant in the defence ministry scornfully dismissed the court's ruling.

Not the unpaid servant kind, but the flash-triggering kind.

They are meant to distract us from what a public servant is hired to do.

If they wish, they can rent a suite of rooms, including one for a live-in servant.

Agents wouldn't be innocent and unbothered little servant programs.

So he's actually been a public servant and a good teacher, in that he's opened minds and evoked discussion.

No civil servant lightly surrenders his monopoly of advice to ministers.

It is ubiquitous in the lowest ring of the public servant to the higher echelon of the presidency.

It would be odd if a government did nothing about a civil servant blabbing damagingly to the media.

Each message would be a software agent, a sort of digital servant performing a task for the person who sent it out.

Also required is a commitment to the principles and practice of servant leadership in a church related university environment.

We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Scopes could be dismissed because as a public employee he was a servant to his master.

The privatisation programme has stalled, and the senior civil servant in charge of one part of it resigned.

Thus the servant becomes the master with his creator as his slave, opening the road to the lower levels of.

Of course, even then the servant could pretend not to understand, and knock his master instead.

Ronald was a civil servant but became a money dealer about a year ago to feed his family.

Nanawati, a career federal civil servant who heads the program's technology-procurement department.

I'll try to make opportunities for the youngsters to take up the servant leadership of academic administration.

The president famously sacked a particularly corrupt top civil servant from the finance ministry.

We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift".

If all a leader needs is silence, my servant maid can take over.

We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the.

The relation of master to servant is precisely that of infant to mommy/daddy.

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World English Dictionary

servant (ˈsɜːv^ənt)

—n
1.	a person employed to work for another, esp one who performs household duties
2.	See public servant

[C13: via Old French, from servant serving, from servir to serve]

'servant-like

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

servant

early 13c., from O.Fr., noun use of servant "serving, waiting," prp. of servir "to attend, wait upon" (see serve). Meaning "professed lover, one devoted to the service of a lady" is from mid-14c. In N.American colonies and U.S., the usual designation for "slave" 17c.-18c.

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(in 14c.-15c. and later in Biblical translations the word often was used to render L. servus, Gk. doulos "slave"). Public servant is attested from 1670s.

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