Synonyms for Civil service
civ·il ser·vice

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1. civil servicenoun

   government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations

   Synonyms:
   civil service

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1. • Government Officials

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1. Emma Sinclair-Webb:

   It is an unvarnished move for an arbitrary, mass and permanent purge of the civil service, prosecutors and judges, and to close down private institutions and associations without evidence, justification or due process.

2. Chris Christie:

   It’s called burrowing, you take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up ... roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House.

3. Alex Thomas:

   In the civil service, that is not the sort of thing that is going to enhance her reputation, that leaves an imprint.

4. Gareth Jenkins:

   What we have seen in the last few days is the start of a process which will have an impact on Turkey and its armed forces for the next 20-30 years. It is monumental, we will see a very highly politicized military now, just as the civil service has become. Dismissals and detentions have a knock-on effect on the whole chain of command ... The inevitable loss of trust has a big impact on operational capabilities.

5. Liam Fox:

   I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way, malicious leaks of this nature are unprofessional, unethical and unpatriotic and can actually lead to a damage to that relationship which can therefore affect our wider security interest.