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Definition of civil servant noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

civil servant

noun
 
/ˌsɪvl ˈsɜːvənt/
 
/ˌsɪvl ˈsɜːrvənt/
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  1. a person who works in the civil service
    • He’s a 35-year-old civil servant with two young children.
    Topics Jobsc1, Politicsc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryCivil servant is used after these nouns:
    • career
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