civil servantnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌsɪv.əl ˈsɜː.vənt/us/ˌsɪv.əl ˈsɝː.vənt/a person who works in the Civil Service
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Government ministers & civil servants
- aide
- am
- attorney general
- backbencher
- cabinet
- Chancellor of the Exchequer
- government
- Home Secretary
- kitchen cabinet
- mandarin
- marshal
- minister
- public servant
- regulator
- secretary
- Secretary of State
- senior statesman
- servant
- the Privy Council
- Whitehall
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Examples from literature
- As a civil servant and senior Treasury representative he served at the Versailles negotiations after the First World War.
- For instance, a civil servant or a solicitor or a tradesman finds himself bound for life to a locality and an occupation of intolerable monotony.
- The justices were career civil servants knowledgeable in the civil and canon law.