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civil servants

civil servants is the plural of civil servant.

Meaning of civil servant

Noun

civil servant (plural civil servants)

  1. 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

Questions about civil servants

What is civil servants the plural of?
Civil servants is the plural of civil servant.

Words near civil servants in the dictionary

  1. civil rightists
  2. civil rights
  3. civil rights movement
  4. civil rights movements
  5. civil servant
  6. civil servants
  7. civil service
  8. civil services
  9. civil societies
  10. civil society
  11. civil status

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