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public service

noun as in government employment or appointment

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Law-enforcement agencies at all levels of government provide a valuable and often thankless public service in their communities.

While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.

Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.

“Hurting others or destroying property is not the answer,” the elder Brown had said last week in a public-service video.

I just came from a ceremony that celebrated pre-vets day down at Arizona Public Service—20 percent of their employees are vets.

A railroad corporation, though performing a public service, nevertheless is a private corporation.

This contempt for the masses they cherish until they have to descend from Parnassus and enter the public service.

He had been ordered by the Commissioners of the Excise to pay ten thousand pounds into the Exchequer for the public service.

The estates of such men would soon have been considered as a fund applicable to the public service.

His last public service was performed in the defence of Hamburgh, where he was lieutenant governor.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to public service, such as: civil service, benevolences, good works, philanthropies, public life, and works.

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

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