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Public servant

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person employed by the government.

    "Whitlam redefined the Labor Party as the party of Deakinite liberalism and the natural home of good public servants like his father. He was, he said, the first Prime Minister of Australia who had lived in Canberra, ‘the son of a great public servant, among whose colleagues were great public servants’."

  2. 2
    someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment) wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone who labours for the public good; a convict assigned to work on public projects. historical

    "And whosoever shall refuse any one of his three Essays [...] shall be deem'd a Helot or public Servant, shall pay a fifth part of his yearly Revenue, besides all other Taxes, to the Common-wealth for his Protection, and be incapable of bearing any Magistracy except such as is proper to the Law."

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