public servants

noun

Definition of public servantsnext
plural of public servant
1
as in officials
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 servants
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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  1. officers
  2. employees
  3. bureaucrats
  4. workers
Noun
  • The system covers corrections officers, police officers and firefighters but not emergency medical technicians.
    Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Responding officers found a 47-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man with gunshot wounds.
    Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of officers
Noun
  • Nvidia Business Group will consist of 30,000 employees focused on assisting clients scale enterprise generative AI adoption.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • At the event, a recruitment party for prospective employees, Musk’s main selling point was speed — touting the company’s pace in developing products, and creating AI tools in a fast and nimble environment, comparing xAI to an SR-71 jet.
    Richard Nieva, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of employees
Noun
  • The White House must identify influential bureaucrats and convince them that change serves not only the national interest but also their agencies’ interests.
    Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The British focused on the repressed anger that many ordinary Germans felt toward Nazi bureaucrats.
    Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of bureaucrats
Noun
  • Nike’s recent shareholder vote against a proposal to consider binding agreements with workers across the supply chain to address human rights issues could push their score down in the future.
    Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Gago at the end of the session summarized key takeaways, calculating that female professionals across the three countries only make up around 30 percent of sector workers.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of workers
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