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/pˈəblɪk sˈərvənt/ Listen

Public servant

noun

Someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment).

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... made up his mind to shut up his shop, and retire from business. He had saved enough to live on—why should he go on any longer in this halting, miserable way—a public servant, yet pleasing nobody? ...

— After a Shadow, and Other Stories • T. S. Arthur

... of thus discussing, in open Court, how far the Attorney-General had proved to be an effective public servant, must be apparent to everybody. And it must be admitted that the discussion was provoked by Justice Willis, who had made something very like an attack upon the Attorney-General—an attack based upon the unsworn statements of an indicted libeller. He had moreover permitted ...

— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent

... duty of a public servant as to profiting by opportunities to secure for his country what all the rest of the world considers material advantages? Even if he could persuade himself that rejecting them is morally and internationally ...

— Problems of Expansion - As Considered In Papers and Addresses • Whitelaw Reid

... a public servant and a private one. The only nobleman today, king and only aristocrat, is the public, the public. You are quite willing to serve the public—but ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... he must at the time have been in the prime of his days. In short, he was at the very stage of life at which you are now, and this is an account of how a young man of three thousand years ago became a public servant of God. ...

— The Preacher and His Models - The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 • James Stalker

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