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CIVIL SERVANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does civil servant mean?
• CIVIL SERVANT (noun)
The noun CIVIL SERVANT has 1 sense:
1. a public official who is a member of the civil service
Familiarity information: CIVIL SERVANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A public official who is a member of the civil service
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("civil servant" is a kind of...):
functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
Holonyms ("civil servant" is a member of...):
civil service (government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations)
Context examples
A civil servant she had withstood; but when Dr.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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