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civil servant

noun as in government employee

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Macron excelled at France's elite schools, including the civil-servant powerhouse Ecole Nationale d'Administration.

Prescott was then at the centre of a media storm about his affair with a civil servant, Tracey Temple.

A retired civil servant in the suburbs of Athens doesn't produce any surplus at all.

His clotted rhetoric speaks to his 21 years as a civil servant, but his meaning and intention are clear enough.

There is Ursula the civil servant bravely patrolling a London bombed to pieces during the Blitz.

A civil servant of the Republic had no legal right to sever himself from his engagements without permission.

But the capable Civil Servant never admitted the justice of being passed over.

Stimpson was a Civil Servant, but his life-work was cabinet-making.

During the Commonwealth Marvell was content to be a civil servant.

All traces of the Terran civil servant, clumsy and uncomfortable in his ill-fitting clothes, had dropped away.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to civil servant, such as: public servant, government worker, public employee, and public official.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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