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
Mass firing civil servants without any legal authority.
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S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
After the stop-work orders began going out, Trump’s aides and the DOGE team then turned their focus to the agency’s workforce, which is staffed by civil servants, foreign service officers and contractors.
—Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
That maneuver went at the heart of what was regarded as a sacrosanct tenet in American government: that civil servants remain outside partisan politics and can’t be fired without due process.
—Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
But civil servants are not waiting around for that to happen.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
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S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2025
After the stop-work orders began going out, Trump’s aides and the DOGE team then turned their focus to the agency’s workforce, which is staffed by civil servants, foreign service officers and contractors.
—Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
That maneuver went at the heart of what was regarded as a sacrosanct tenet in American government: that civil servants remain outside partisan politics and can’t be fired without due process.
—Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
But civil servants are not waiting around for that to happen.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for civil servant
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Multitudes of nonpolitical public servants, normally left in place when new presidents come in, are out.—
Calvin Woodward,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2025
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The fact that Sheila is at a crucial moment in her own career as a public servant is mentioned once and never again.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the few departments that held hearings on Wednesday, attendees reported chaotic and sluggish proceedings, with supervisors filling in for court clerks and at least one judge filling out minute orders by hand.—
Jakob Rodgers,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Two were from the wrongful convictions of James Irons and Thomas Malik, who in 1995 were charged with the murder of a subway clerk.—
Chelsia Rose Marcius,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Court officials, meanwhile, have strongly pushed back against SEIU’s claims of short-staffing, inadequate cost-of-living adjustments and a failure to fully and properly train employees.—
Jakob Rodgers,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Such a deal would reduce US dependency on China, and provide significant incentive for the United States to boost Ukrainian security, a US official familiar with negotiations told CNN.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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Start doing everything within your power to drive, support, and reward those high priority behaviors in every employee within your sphere.—
Bruce Tulgan,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Environment Forest Service layoffs will leave the U.S. more prone to wildfires, employees say A 2024 Pew Research Center poll showed that the park service had the most favorable rating of any government agency at 76%, with strong support from a majority of both Democrats and Republicans.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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Related article Cabinet officials caught off guard and frustrated by Musk’s directives to federal employees A second email from OPM early Monday evening told workers they were not required to reply, which didn’t clear much up.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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That's a staggering 83% loss. Between the lines: The downtown reshuffling comes at a tricky time as companies push to get workers back in offices full time.—
Justin Kaufmann,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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Itay’s official cinematic and cultural organizations and departments have partnered effectively with the Venice Festival, even if those partnerships were often fraught with pressures as competing arts fiefdoms set bureaucrat against bureaucrat.—
Steven Gaydos,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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Current and former officials see it as a campaign of retribution against those who opposed his earlier work, as well as an opportunity to fulfill his most controversial policies by sidelining bureaucrats who get in his way.—
Brett Murphy,
ProPublica,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20servant. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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