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