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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 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. government employee
Afrikaans: amptenaar
Albanian: nëpunës shteti m
Arabic: مُوَظَّف m ( muwaẓẓaf ) , مُوَظَّفَة f ( muwaẓẓafa ) , مُوَظَّف حُكُومِيّ m ( muwaẓẓaf ḥukūmiyy ) , مُوَظَّف مَدَنِيّ m ( muwaẓẓaf madaniyy )
Moroccan Arabic: موضف m ( muwaḍḍaf ) , موضفة f ( muwaḍḍafa )
Armenian: պետական ծառայող (hy) ( petakan caṙayoġ )
Azerbaijani: məmur (az)
Belarusian: дзяржа́ўны слу́жачы m ( dzjaržáwny slúžačy )
Bulgarian: държа́вен служи́тел m ( dǎržáven služítel )
Catalan: funcionari (ca) m funcionària (ca) f servidor públic m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 公務員 / 公务员 (zh) ( gōngwùyuán )
Czech: státní úředník m
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
Kazakh: мемлекеттік қызметкер ( memlekettık qyzmetker )
Korean: 공무원(公務員) (ko) ( gongmuwon )
Kyrgyz: мамлекеттик кызматкер ( mamlekettik kızmatker )
Lao: ລັດຖະກອນ ( lat tha kǭn )
Latvian: valsts ierēdnis m
Lithuanian: valdininkas m pareigūnas m
Macedonian: службеник m ( službenik ) , службеничка f ( službenička ) , државен службеник m ( državen službenik )
Malay: penjawat awam (ms)
Norman: fonctionnaithe m or f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: embetsmann (no) m
Nynorsk: embetsmann m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: کارْمَنْدِ دُوْلَت ( 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 ) , госслу́жащий (ru) m ( gosslúžaščij ) , чино́вник (ru) m ( činóvnik ) , функционе́р (ru) m ( funkcionér )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: државни службеник m
Latin: državni službenik m
Slovak: verejný činiteľ m štátny zamestnanec m štátny úradník m
Slovene: državni uradnik m
Spanish: funcionario (es) m
Swahili: mtumishi wa umma
Swedish: ämbetsman (sv) c tjänsteman (sv)
Tagalog: lingkod-bayan
Tajik: хизматчии давлатӣ ( xizmatči-yi davlati )
Thai: ข้าราชการ (th) ( kâa-râat-chá-gaan )
Tibetan: སྲི་ཞུ་བ ( sri zhu ba )
Turkish: memur (tr) , devlet memuru
Ukrainian: держа́вний службо́вець (uk) m ( deržávnyj službóvecʹ ) , держслужбо́вець (uk) m ( deržslužbóvecʹ )
Uzbek: davlat xizmatchisi
Vietnamese: công chức (vi) , viên chức (vi)
Walloon: fonccionaire (wa) m or f
Welsh: gwas sifil
