as in public servant
a worker in a government agency
took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department
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Recent Examples of civil servant
Bayrou has also started to assemble his administrative team, which is made up of experienced ‘centrist’ civil servants.
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Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
One reason is that civil servants overwhelmingly view the return-to-office push as a bad-faith political stunt designed to assuage critics in Congress or provide economic benefits to cities.
—Matthew Yglesias, The Mercury News, 18 Dec. 2024
Does that go for civil servants as well, Mr. President, who work in the executive branch but aren’t appointees?
—Time Staff, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
The Constitution contains provisions that prevent a total government shutdown in the absence of a budget, permitting the country to carry out basic functions such as collecting taxes and paying civil servants.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
One reason is that civil servants overwhelmingly view the return-to-office push as a bad-faith political stunt designed to assuage critics in Congress or provide economic benefits to cities.
—Matthew Yglesias, The Mercury News, 18 Dec. 2024
Does that go for civil servants as well, Mr. President, who work in the executive branch but aren’t appointees?
—Time Staff, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
The Constitution contains provisions that prevent a total government shutdown in the absence of a budget, permitting the country to carry out basic functions such as collecting taxes and paying civil servants.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil servant
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This public servant has carried out his duties under the most extreme circumstances.Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 4 Jan. 2025
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Correspondent Rita Braver looks back on the remarkable life of a public servant and Nobel Peace Prize-winner, and talks with Carter's son, Chip; former Carter aide Stuart Eizenstat; and biographer Jonathan Alter, about Jimmy Carter's legacy.David Morgan, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2025
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His only exceptions were clerks, postmasters and enlisted personnel in the military.Peter Kastor, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
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Postal service clerks, executive secretaries, and payroll staff top the list of shrinking roles, with changes driven by factors including (but not limited to) AI adoption.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2025
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Some of the arms in the package could be sent through current U.S. stocks, but the majority would take a year or several years to deliver, according to two U.S. officials who spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because the notification to Congress hasn't been formally sent.Compiled byDemocrat-Gazette stafffrom wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 5 Jan. 2025
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But punishing that behavior means bringing the hammer down on Vietnam, hardly a step that would win Washington strategic support in Hanoi, where a new leadership dominated by public security and military officials actually sees eye to eye with China in some areas.Evan A. Feigenbaum, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Along with the influx of people came support volunteers, with many donating items or offering assistance to the Red Cross employees already stationed there.Angela Yang, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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In an Atwater Village Chipotle, customers and employees alike sighed and picked up their phones.Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Employers added 256,000 workers last month, surpassing economist expectations of 155,000 jobs added, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data on Friday showed.Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Rudy Giuliani is set to appear in a Washington, D.C., federal courtroom Friday as a federal judge considers a request from two Georgia election workers to hold the former New York City mayor in contempt for allegedly continuing to defame them in violation of a court order.Robert Legare, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
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But in Washington, the techno-libertarian pivot demands that regulators’ overreach be confined to the echo chambers of an ever-dwindling group of bureaucrats—and their rules remain unwritten. Follow me on Twitter.Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
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Vivek Ramaswamy [Archival audio]: Elon Musk and I are in a position to start the mass deportations of millions of unelected federal bureaucrats out of the D.C. bureaucracy.Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20servant. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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