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civil service

NOUN
bureaucracy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
administration authority management ministry red tape
STRONG
directorate government officialdom officials
WEAK
beadledom city hall powers that be regulatory commission the Establishment the system
NOUN
public service
Synonyms
WEAK
benevolences good works philanthropies public life works

Example Sentences

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Civil-service procedures are designed to protect public employees and the public against just that.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2017

Civil-service reform has very generally made progress during the past twenty years in State and city governments, and probably the principle is now more or less recognized in a great majority of the States.

From Popular Law-making by Stimson, Frederic Jesup

Civil-service reform; speeches; article in the "North American Review."

From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by White, Andrew Dickson

Civil-service reform had a far easier task in England than it has here, and forces at its back which are here actively or inertly opposed to it.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various