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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More fundamental is that Harris, unlike Trump, is not obsessed with using presidential power to persecute critics, overturn elections, stamp out peaceful dissent, replace legions of civil servants with rabid loyalists or act as a dictator on Day One.
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Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Katie Hafner: A week later on the White House Lawn, President Kennedy presented Dr. Frances Kelsey with the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest award the federal government can give a career civil servant.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
The Heritage team filed these requests even as the think tank’s Project 2025 was promoting a controversial plan to remove job protections for tens of thousands of career civil servants so they could be identified and fired if Donald Trump wins the presidential election.
—Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2024
Tangent Vance has also been a major proponent of a key proposal in Project 2025 that Trump should overhaul the federal workforce to replace many career civil servants with political appointees.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Katie Hafner: A week later on the White House Lawn, President Kennedy presented Dr. Frances Kelsey with the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, the highest award the federal government can give a career civil servant.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
The Heritage team filed these requests even as the think tank’s Project 2025 was promoting a controversial plan to remove job protections for tens of thousands of career civil servants so they could be identified and fired if Donald Trump wins the presidential election.
—Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2024
Tangent Vance has also been a major proponent of a key proposal in Project 2025 that Trump should overhaul the federal workforce to replace many career civil servants with political appointees.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20servant. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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