0 a person who works in the Civil Service
1 a person who works for local, state, or esp. the federal government
2 someone who works in a department of a country's government but who is not a part of its military:
As a civil servant and senior Treasury representative he served at the Versailles negotiations after the First World War.
For instance, a civil servant or a solicitor or a tradesman finds himself bound for life to a locality and an occupation of intolerable monotony.
The justices were career civil servants knowledgeable in the civil and canon law.
The pompous impersonality of officialese also, of course, allows the civil servant to hide behind the monolithic structure of his organisation.
The head of the civil service, a senior civil servant, is the secretary to the cabinet.
The fact is that by mid-century, the charismatic hero-expert was already being supplanted by a decidedly different breed of the civil servant.
It would be someone else's responsibility (the politician or the civil servant) to develop the policy concerned and to make it ready for implementation.
Hierarchies are rigid when it comes to the approval of the drafts and proposals prepared by a civil servant (fonctionnaire).
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