civil servant

as in public servant
a worker in a government agency took the examination to become a civil servant in the defense department

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Recent Examples on the Web The Heritage team filed these requests even as the think tank’s Project 2025 was promoting a controversial plan to remove job protections for tens of thousands of career civil servants so they could be identified and fired if Donald Trump wins the presidential election. Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2024 Tangent Vance has also been a major proponent of a key proposal in Project 2025 that Trump should overhaul the federal workforce to replace many career civil servants with political appointees. Alison Durkee, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 The results were disastrous, suggesting what might happen if Trump manages to replace thousands of civil servants with political appointees. TIME, 23 Sep. 2024 Most of the others are civil servants, including FBI agents, NIH scientists, National Park rangers and IRS auditors — all of whom would be affected by the changes Trump has proposed. Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for civil servant 

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“Civil servant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/civil%20servant. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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