civil service

Synonyms for civil service

noun government employment or appointment

noun. government employment or appointment

c.1785, originally in reference to non-military staff of the East India Company. Civil servant is from 1800.

Tommy talked of the civil service in the tone of Harry himself.

There's civil service to be gone through, and the like of that.

But mind no examination,—no going before the Civil Service chaps.

He had long had a great desire to enter the Imperial civil service.

He gave some attention also to the debate on the civil service law.

Public attention was focused upon the civil service by the events of 1881.

You've only to say one word, and I'll work for the Civil Service.

In the civil service of the National government there are said to be nearly two score.

In the civil service he was given only second-class consulates.

He got a reply that he must take a civil service examination to get the place.