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public servants

public servants is the plural of public servant.

Meaning of public servant

Noun

public servant (plural public servants)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    civil servant
  2. (historical) 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

Questions about public servants

What is public servants the plural of?
Public servants is the plural of public servant.

Words near public servants in the dictionary

  1. public school
  2. public schools
  3. public sector
  4. public sectors
  5. public servant
  6. public servants
  7. public service
  8. public service announcement
  9. public service announcements
  10. public services
  11. public space

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