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Noun [English]

Forms: civil servants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} civil servant (plural civil servants)
  1. A person employed in the civil service; a government employee. Wikipedia link: civil servant Categories (topical): Government, Occupations, People Synonyms: civilian, public servant Translations (government employee): amptenaar (Afrikaans), مُوَظَّف (muwaẓẓaf) [masculine] (Arabic), مُوَظَّفَة (muwaẓẓafa) [feminine] (Arabic), موضف (muwaḍḍaf) [Moroccan-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), موضفة (muwaḍḍafa) [Moroccan-Arabic, feminine] (Arabic), məmur (Azerbaijani), funcionari [masculine] (Catalan), funcionària [feminine] (Catalan), servidor públic [masculine] (Catalan), 公務員 (Chinese Mandarin), 公务员 (gōngwùyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), embedsmand [common-gender] (Danish), tjenestemand (english: older officially regulated term) [common-gender] (Danish), ambtenaar [masculine] (Dutch), ambtenares [feminine] (Dutch), riigiametnik (Estonian), virkamies (Finnish), fonctionnaire [feminine, masculine] (French), funcionario [masculine] (Galician), funcionaria [feminine] (Galician), მოხელე (moxele) (Georgian), სახელმწიფო მოსამსახურე (saxelmc̣ipo mosamsaxure) (Georgian), საჯარო მოხელე (saǯaro moxele) (Georgian), საჯარო მოსამსახურე (saǯaro mosamsaxure) (Georgian), სახელმწიფო მოხელე (saxelmc̣ipo moxele) (Georgian), Beamter [masculine] (German), Beamtin [feminine] (German), Funktionär [masculine] (German), Funktionärin [feminine] (German), δημόσιος υπάλληλος (dimósios ypállilos) [feminine, masculine] (Greek), köztisztviselő (Hungarian), közhivatalnok (Hungarian), közalkalmazott (Hungarian), közszolga (Hungarian), opinber starfsmaður [masculine] (Icelandic), ríkisstarfsmaður [masculine] (Icelandic), pegawai negeri (Indonesian), amtenar [dated] (Indonesian), pamong praja (Indonesian), funzionario [masculine] (Italian), 公務員 (kōmuin) (alt: こうむいん) (Japanese), amtenar (Javanese), 공무원 (gongmuwon) (Korean), ລັດຖະກອນ (lat tha kǭn) (Lao), службеник (službenik) [masculine] (Macedonian), службеничка (službenička) [feminine] (Macedonian), penjawat awam (Malay), fonctionnaithe [feminine, masculine] (Norman), embetsmann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), embetsmann [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), کارمند دولت (kârmand-e dowlat) (Persian), Stautsdeena [masculine] (Plautdietsch), urzędnik państwowy [masculine] (Polish), funcionário [masculine] (Portuguese), funcionário público [masculine] (Portuguese), servidor público [masculine] (Portuguese), funcționar [masculine] (Romanian), funcționar public [masculine] (Romanian), госуда́рственный слу́жащий (gosudárstvennyj slúžaščij) [masculine] (Russian), чино́вник (činóvnik) [masculine] (Russian), функционе́р (funkcionér) [masculine] (Russian), funcionario [masculine] (Spanish), mtumishi wa umma (Swahili), ämbetsman [common-gender] (Swedish), tjänsteman (Swedish), lingkod bayan (Tagalog), ข้าราชการ (kâa-râat-chá-gaan) (Thai), སྲི་ཞུ་བ (sri zhu ba) (Tibetan), memur (Turkish), devlet memuru (Turkish), державний службовець (deržavnyj službovecʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), держслужбовець (deržslužbovecʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), fonccionaire [feminine, masculine] (Walloon), gwas sifil (Welsh)
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          "code": "es",
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          "code": "sw",
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          "code": "sv",
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          "code": "tl",
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          "sense": "government employee",
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          "code": "th",
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          "roman": "kâa-râat-chá-gaan",
          "sense": "government employee",
          "word": "ข้าราชการ"
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          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "sri zhu ba",
          "sense": "government employee",
          "word": "སྲི་ཞུ་བ"
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          "code": "tr",
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          "sense": "government employee",
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        },
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        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
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          "text": "Civil servants in the MoT gave a fresh note of caution to the Minister concerning BR's estimates, because those for electrification from Euston had gone from a budgeted £75m to an actual £160m.",
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "virkamies"
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "მოხელე"
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "სახელმწიფო მოსამსახურე"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "közhivatalnok"
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "word": "amtenar"
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      "code": "id",
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "pamong praja"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "funzionario"
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      "roman": "kōmuin",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "公務員"
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "amtenar"
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      "roman": "gongmuwon",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "공무원"
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      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "lat tha kǭn",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "ລັດຖະກອນ"
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      "word": "penjawat awam"
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "embetsmann"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "embetsmann"
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      "roman": "kârmand-e dowlat",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "کارمند دولت"
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      "word": "Stautsdeena"
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "urzędnik państwowy"
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "funcionário"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "funcionário público"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "servidor público"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "government employee",
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      "word": "funcționar public"
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "government employee",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "mtumishi wa umma"
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "tjänsteman"
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      "code": "tl",
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      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "lingkod bayan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
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      "roman": "kâa-râat-chá-gaan",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "ข้าราชการ"
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      "code": "bo",
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      "roman": "sri zhu ba",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "སྲི་ཞུ་བ"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "memur"
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    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "deržavnyj službovecʹ",
      "sense": "government employee",
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      "code": "uk",
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      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fonccionaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "government employee",
      "word": "gwas sifil"
    }
  ],
  "word": "civil servant"
}

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