0 a person who is hired to work for another, especially in helping to run a house -- pembantu rumah
a domestic servant.
1 a person employed by the government, or in the administration of a country etc -- pekerja
Sectional interests were especially powerful, and conquest was driven forward by ambitious colonels, civil servants and professional patriots.
In a comparison of real administrative costs and real term expenditure, the data support the bureau-shaping thesis that public servants work to maximise their budgets.
Now ministers, more and more, come to look on their top civil servants as managers running a department, rather than as policy advisers.
Bureaucratic autonomy was ensured in the first decades of independence, by the retention of expatriate senior civil servants.
Agriculture appears, therefore, to have been carried out with the assistance of thirteen labourers and only three servants in husbandry.
In keeping with the bureau-shaping models assertions, senior public servants tended to stay in parent departments, retained policy and strategic roles.
The union complained that so few cooks could hardly provide food and act as servants for the ten guards assigned to them.
Such men remained the under-labourers, the privates, even the servants of the dominant, innovative, geological elite.
