public servant
public servant noun: a person employed by the government.
Noun
public servant (plural public servants)
- A person employed by the government.
- Whitlam redefined the Labor Party as the party of Deakinite liberalism and the natural home of good public servants like his father. He was, he said, the first Prime Minister of Australia who had lived in Canberra, ‘the son of a great public servant, among whose colleagues were great public...2003, Judith Brett, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard, page 145
- Today, Fraser says of Tange: ‘He was one of the best public servants Australia has ever had’.2010, Malcolm Fraser, Margaret Simons, Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, page 192
- Synonyms:
- civil servant
- Someone who labours for the public good; a convict assigned to work on public projects.
- And whosoever shall refuse any one of his three Essays [...] shall be deem'd a Helot or public Servant, shall pay a fifth part of his yearly Revenue, besides all other Taxes, to the Common-wealth for his Protection, and be incapable of bearing any Magistracy except such as is proper to the Law.1656, James Harrington, Oceana
- Immediately / Was Samson as a public servant brought, / In thir state Livery clad; before him Pipes / And Timbrels, on each side went armed guards, / Both horse and foot before him and behind / Archers, and Slingers, Cataphracts and Spears.1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes
public servant meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada
public servant in Hindi
- public servant
- जनसेवक jansevak
public servant in Tamil
- அரசுப்பணியாளர், ஊழியர்
public servant in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಭುತ್ವದ ಉದ್ಯೋಗಿ, ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ನೌಕರ, ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿ, ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಸೇವಕ, ಸಮಾಜ ಸೇವಕ
Examples of public servant in a sentence
- Whitlam redefined the Labor Party as the party of Deakinite liberalism and the natural home of good public servants like his father.2003, Judith Brett, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard, page 145:
- While the Westminster system has not changed over the past 30 years, there has been major cultural change amongst Australian public servants.2012, Rodney Smith, Ariadne Vromen, Ian Cook, Contemporary Politics in Australia: Theories, Practices and Issues, page 242:
- For special reasons, the use of convicts as public servants warrants separate attention.1994, Noel George Butlin, Forming a Colonial Economy: Australia 1810-1850, page 75:
Synonyms of public servant
Forms of public servant
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Questions about public servant
- What does public servant mean?
- Public servant means a person employed by the government.
- What is public servant in Hindi?
- Public servant in Hindi is जनसेवक (jansevak). See Public servant meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use public servant in a sentence?
- Whitlam redefined the Labor Party as the party of Deakinite liberalism and the natural home of good public servants like his father.
- What part of speech is public servant?
- Public servant is a noun.
- What is the plural of public servant?
- The plural of public servant is public servants.
Words near public servant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: public servant (page history and authors); जनसेवक (Hindi) (page history and authors); public servant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); public 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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