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Definitions

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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Cap bearing the badge of the Indian Police Service, the highest-trained level of police officers who must pass the Indian civil service exam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Cap bearing the badge of the Indian Police Service, the highest-trained level of police officers who must pass the Indian civil service exam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

"I am going to appeal to all female aspiring candidates to ensure that they record all these cases," Mainga Kabika, the civil service head of the gender division in the president's office, said on Monday.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Carter’s administration instituted the most sweeping reforms of the civil service since 1883’s Pendleton Act, which replaced the spoils system and created a professional, merit-based system.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

Studied at the Lyceum of Nezhin, went to St. Petersburg in 1828 where he entered, in 1829, the civil service, in the Department of Public Works for the Ministry of the Interior.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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