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public service

noun as in government employment or appointment

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Yet, as postwar economic growth began to slow in the 1960s, states once again turned to gambling, this time hoping to finance the combination of generous public services and low taxes that citizens had come to expect.

A 37-year-old former high school football star, Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines and Houston city controller, Castillo brought a public service background to the position.

“I appreciate Jason’s commitment to public service in this advisory role, which he will perform without compensation from any party,” Filner wrote in an April 2013 press release.

The senator and vice president-elect describes her upbringing and career in public service.

This small number would result in negligible impacts on population, housing, and public services in the proposed Project area.

Law-enforcement agencies at all levels of government provide a valuable and often thankless public service in their communities.

While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.

Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.

“Hurting others or destroying property is not the answer,” the elder Brown had said last week in a public-service video.

I just came from a ceremony that celebrated pre-vets day down at Arizona Public Service—20 percent of their employees are vets.

A railroad corporation, though performing a public service, nevertheless is a private corporation.

This contempt for the masses they cherish until they have to descend from Parnassus and enter the public service.

He had been ordered by the Commissioners of the Excise to pay ten thousand pounds into the Exchequer for the public service.

The estates of such men would soon have been considered as a fund applicable to the public service.

His last public service was performed in the defence of Hamburgh, where he was lieutenant governor.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to public service, such as: civil service, benevolences, good works, philanthropies, public life, and works.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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