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as in officer
a person who holds a public office
the new governor made a vow that he would always remember why he was called a public servant
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as in civil servant
a worker in a government agency
concerned that the new federal agency would just add another slew of public servants to the government payroll
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Recent Examples of public servant
Our agencies are critically understaffed and the risks to public servants are tragic and real.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2025
These scare tactics are deplorable and are solely to put a target on the backs of public servants.
—Oumou Fofana, Essence, 7 Feb. 2025
The late night host went over who was in attendance — from Trump’s family to former Vice President Mike Pence and the much talked-about Big Tech billionaires who were seated in the second row during the first address, in front of Trump’s Cabinet members, state governors and public servants.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
And hundreds of other services provided by federal public servants with little public recognition.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2025
These scare tactics are deplorable and are solely to put a target on the backs of public servants.
—Oumou Fofana, Essence, 7 Feb. 2025
The late night host went over who was in attendance — from Trump’s family to former Vice President Mike Pence and the much talked-about Big Tech billionaires who were seated in the second row during the first address, in front of Trump’s Cabinet members, state governors and public servants.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025
And hundreds of other services provided by federal public servants with little public recognition.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for public servant
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The Frito-Lay to 7Up maker will end DEI workforce representation goals and transition its chief DEI officer to a broader role looking into associate engagement and leadership development, according to a memo to company associates.—
Ananya Mariam Rajesh,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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He was hired by athletic director Chris McIntosh in February 2022 — nine months before Fickell arrived — to serve as deputy athletic director and chief operating officer while working as sport administrator for football.—
Jesse Temple,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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On Thursday, Trump’s H.R. arm told as many as 200,000 feds with less than two years in their jobs that their careers as civil servants were over.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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But some more permanent civil servants are also out.—
Emily Peck,
Axios,
14 Feb. 2025
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Court officials, meanwhile, have strongly pushed back against SEIU’s claims of short-staffing, inadequate cost-of-living adjustments and a failure to fully and properly train employees.—
Jakob Rodgers,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Such a deal would reduce US dependency on China, and provide significant incentive for the United States to boost Ukrainian security, a US official familiar with negotiations told CNN.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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In the few departments that held hearings on Wednesday, attendees reported chaotic and sluggish proceedings, with supervisors filling in for court clerks and at least one judge filling out minute orders by hand.—
Jakob Rodgers,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Clerk of Superior Court Elisa Chinn-Gary should have 249 clerks, the study says.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
18 Feb. 2025
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Both the cardholder and the administrator have to consent to the arrangement, but the administrator doesn’t need to hold a financial power of attorney, since the card is funded with discrete deposits—not all of a holder’s assets.—
Lindsey Choo,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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The administrators then allegedly confirmed they were notified the player was transgender, but denied her pleas to have the player removed.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Environment Forest Service layoffs will leave the U.S. more prone to wildfires, employees say A 2024 Pew Research Center poll showed that the park service had the most favorable rating of any government agency at 76%, with strong support from a majority of both Democrats and Republicans.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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Start doing everything within your power to drive, support, and reward those high priority behaviors in every employee within your sphere.—
Bruce Tulgan,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Related article Cabinet officials caught off guard and frustrated by Musk’s directives to federal employees A second email from OPM early Monday evening told workers they were not required to reply, which didn’t clear much up.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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Between fiscal years 2015 to 2019, agency inspectors general substantiated only 100 allegations of employee time and attendance misconduct or fraud out of a federal workforce of around 2.1 million employees (the GAO report did not include postal workers).—
Laura Doan,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
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Itay’s official cinematic and cultural organizations and departments have partnered effectively with the Venice Festival, even if those partnerships were often fraught with pressures as competing arts fiefdoms set bureaucrat against bureaucrat.—
Steven Gaydos,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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Current and former officials see it as a campaign of retribution against those who opposed his earlier work, as well as an opportunity to fulfill his most controversial policies by sidelining bureaucrats who get in his way.—
Brett Murphy,
ProPublica,
16 Feb. 2025
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