civil servant
civil servant noun: a person employed in the civil service; a government employee.
Noun
civil servant (plural civil servants)
- A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.
- Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
- Civil servants in the MoT gave a fresh note of caution to the Minister concerning BR's estimates, because those for electrification from Euston had gone from a budgeted £75m to an actual £160m.2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 61
- Synonyms:
- civilian, public servant
civil servant meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog
civil servant in Tamil
- குடிமுறை அரசுப் பணியாளர், ஆட்சி அலுவலர், பொதுத்துறை அலுவலர்
civil servant in Malayalam
- public servant, government, offcial
- സിവിൽസർവന്റ്, രാഷ്ട്രത്തിന്റെ ഭരണവകുപ്പിലെ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥൻ, കർമ്മാധികാരി, ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥൻ, സർക്കാരുദ്യോഗസ്ഥൻ, പകാരത്താർ
civil servant in Kannada
- ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ, ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ನೌಕರ
civil servant in Tagalog
- government employee
- lingkod-bayan
More languagesFewer languages
- civil servant in Arabic
- مُوَظَّف muwaẓẓaf, مُوَظَّفَة muwaẓẓafa, مُوَظَّف حُكُومِيّ muwaẓẓaf ḥukūmiyy, مُوَظَّف مَدَنِيّ muwaẓẓaf madaniyy
- civil servant in Malay
- penjawat awam
- civil servant in Indonesian
- pegawai negeri, amtenar, pamong praja
- civil servant in Thai
- ข้าราชการ kâa-râat-chá-gaan
- civil servant in Vietnamese
- công chức, viên chức
Synonyms of civil servant
Forms of civil servant
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Questions about civil servant
- What does civil servant mean?
- Civil servant means a person employed in the civil service; a government employee.
- What is civil servant in Tamil?
- Civil servant in Tamil is குடிமுறை அரசுப் பணியாளர், ஆட்சி அலுவலர், பொதுத்துறை அலுவலர். See Civil servant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is civil servant?
- Civil servant is a noun.
- What is the plural of civil servant?
- The plural of civil servant is civil servants.
Words near civil servant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: civil servant (page history and authors); civil servant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); civil servant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); civil servant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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