civil servant
noun
1
: a member of a civil service
2
: a member of the administrative staff of an international agency
Examples of civil servant in a Sentence
took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department
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As the senior career civil servant overseeing defense, intelligence, and veterans’ programs at the Office of Management and Budget during the first Trump Administration, I was asked to sign off on a hold on military aid to Ukraine, similar to that recently imposed by Trump.
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Mark Sandy, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Doug O'Donnell, a civil servant who spent several decades at the agency, left the IRS last month amid the disagreement between career staff and political appointees.
—arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
The actual target of the cuts will be a more modest sort: career civil servants who, in many cases, could have been making more money in the private sector, or security guards and office cleaners returning every evening to working-class neighborhoods in Anacostia or Prince George’s County.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Mar. 2025
By its own account, the Army Corps Kansas City District employs some 1,000 civil servants who manage 500 miles of the Missouri River, 18 dams and reservoirs, two hydropower plants and issue thousands of regulatory permits a year across several states.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
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Mark Sandy, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Doug O'Donnell, a civil servant who spent several decades at the agency, left the IRS last month amid the disagreement between career staff and political appointees.
—arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025
The actual target of the cuts will be a more modest sort: career civil servants who, in many cases, could have been making more money in the private sector, or security guards and office cleaners returning every evening to working-class neighborhoods in Anacostia or Prince George’s County.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Mar. 2025
By its own account, the Army Corps Kansas City District employs some 1,000 civil servants who manage 500 miles of the Missouri River, 18 dams and reservoirs, two hydropower plants and issue thousands of regulatory permits a year across several states.
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civil%20servant. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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