| 释义 |
civil service  nounThe permanent professional branches of a state’s administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians: [as modifier]: civil service administrators...- The permanent bureaucracy of government, the civil service, took more and more control.
- This is a central part of government policy, not just for the civil service, but for the public sector as a whole.
- They were excluded from top jobs in politics, the civil service and the army.
Origin Late 18th century: originally applied to the part of the work of the British East India Company performed by staff who did not belong to the army or navy. |