civil servant

English

Noun

civil servant (plural civil servants)

A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.
- 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
  Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
- 2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 61:
  Civil servants in the MoT gave a fresh note of caution to the Minister concerning BR's estimates, because those for electrification from Euston had gone from a budgeted £75m to an actual £160m.

Synonyms

public servant

Translations

government employee

Afrikaans: amptenaar
Arabic: مُوَظَّف‎ m (muwaẓẓaf), مُوَظَّفَة‎ f (muwaẓẓafa)
Moroccan Arabic: موضف‎ m (muwaḍḍaf), موضفة‎ f (muwaḍḍafa)
Azerbaijani: məmur (az)
Catalan: funcionari (ca) m, funcionària (ca) f, servidor públic m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 公務員 (zh), 公务员 (zh) (gōngwùyuán)
Danish: embedsmand c, tjenestemand c (older officially regulated term)
Dutch: ambtenaar (nl) m, ambtenares (nl) f
Estonian: riigiametnik
Finnish: virkamies (fi)
French: fonctionnaire (fr) m or f
Galician: funcionario (gl) m, funcionaria f
Georgian: მოხელე (moxele), სახელმწიფო მოსამსახურე (saxelmc̣ipo mosamsaxure), საჯარო მოხელე (saǯaro moxele), საჯარო მოსამსახურე (saǯaro mosamsaxure)
German: Beamter (de) m, Beamtin (de) f, Funktionär (de) m, Funktionärin (de) f
Greek: δημόσιος υπάλληλος (el) m or f (dimósios ypállilos)
Hungarian: köztisztviselő (hu), közhivatalnok (hu)
Icelandic: opinber starfsmaður m, ríkisstarfsmaður m
Indonesian: pegawai negeri (id), amtenar (id) (dated), pamong praja (id)
Italian: funzionario (it) m
Japanese: 公務員 (ja) (こうむいん, kōmuin)
Javanese: amtenar
Korean: 공무원 (ko) (gongmuwon)
Lao: ລັດຖະກອນ (lat tha kǭn)
Macedonian: службеник m (službenik), службеничка f (službenička)
Malay: penjawat awam (ms)
Norman: fonctionnaithe m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: embetsmann m
Nynorsk: embetsmann m
Persian: کارمند دولت‎ (kârmand-e dowlat)
Plautdietsch: Stautsdeena m
Polish: urzędnik państwowy m
Portuguese: funcionário (pt) m, funcionário público (pt) m, servidor público (pt) m
Romanian: funcționar (ro) m, funcționar public m
Russian: госуда́рственный слу́жащий m (gosudárstvennyj slúžaščij), чино́вник (ru) m (činóvnik), функционе́р (ru) m (funkcionér)
Spanish: funcionario (es) m
Swedish: ämbetsman (sv) c, tjänsteman (sv)
Tagalog: lingkod bayan
Thai: ข้าราชการ (th) (kâa-râat-chá-gaan)
Tibetan: སྲི་ཞུ་བ (sri zhu ba)
Turkish: memur (tr), devlet memuru
Ukrainian: державний службовець (uk) m (deržavnyj službovecʹ), держслужбовець (uk) m (deržslužbovecʹ)
Walloon: fonccionaire (wa) m or f
Welsh: gwas sifil