public employee

noun [C] GOVERNMENT

Definition

› someone who works for the government, either in central government or local government: A team of private-sector accountants has been hired for the investigation to avoid tying up large numbers of public employees.

(Definition of public employee noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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