civil servants

noun

Definition of civil servantsnext
plural of civil servant
as in officials
a worker in a government agency took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department

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  1. employees
  2. bureaucrats
  3. workers
  4. clerks
Noun
  • Save for Dartmouth men’s basketball players, college athletes have not been legally recognized as employees.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Though Pepperdine has nearly 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as hundreds of employees, most community members stayed off campus on Monday night.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of employees
Noun
  • Higginbotham brings readers into the lives of astronauts, engineers and bureaucrats involved with NASA’s space program.
    Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The implication was that any competent private-sector manager could do a better job than the politicians and bureaucrats who only served themselves.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of bureaucrats
Noun
  • Last week, tens of thousands of workers at Volkswagen, Germany’s largest manufacturer, took part in strikes at plants across the country.
    Anna Cooban, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • More than 100,000 state employees will get three extra days off this year after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided to give the workers additional time away from the job.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of workers
Noun
  • As the movie progresses, Pansy, constantly at her wits’ end, fights with shop clerks, a dentist, her long-suffering husband and son, her sister.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
  • House Bill 4127, signed by Whitmer Tuesday, prohibits openly carrying firearms at Election Day polling locations, early voting centers, clerks' offices and absentee ballot drop boxes.
    Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of clerks
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