civil servant

English

Noun

civil servant (plural civil servants)

1. 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

• civilian
• 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 / 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), სახელმწიფო მოხელე (saxelmc̣ipo moxele)
• German: Beamter (de) m, Beamtin (de) f, Funktionär (de) m, Funktionärin (de) f
• Greek: δημόσιος υπάλληλος (el) m or f (dimósios ypállilos)
• Hebrew: עובד מדינה m (ovéd m'diná), עובד ציבור m (ovéd tsibúr)
• Hungarian: köztisztviselő (hu), közhivatalnok (hu), közalkalmazott (hu), közszolga (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)
• Lithuanian: valdininkas m
• Macedonian: службеник m (službenik), службеничка f (službenička)
• Malay: penjawat awam (ms)
• Norman: fonctionnaithe m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: embetsmann (no) 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
• Swahili: mtumishi wa umma
• 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