civil servant

noun [C] GOVERNMENT

Definition

› someone who works in a department of a country's government but who is not a part of its military: a high-ranking/middle-ranking/senior civil servant He had been a senior civil servant in the pre-war government, specializing in financial matters. He was the only career civil servant to become an under secretary of Treasury.

(Definition of civil servant noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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