Definition of civil service Civil service
civ•il serv•ice
We found 4 definitions of civil service from 3 different sources.
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What does civil service mean?
WordNet
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| civil service - government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations | ||
| government officials, officialdom people elected or appointed to administer a government | ||
| bureaucratism, bureaucracy any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape | ||
| whitehall the British civil service | ||
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Wiktionary 
- civil service (Noun)
In parliamentary forms of government, the branches of government that are not military, legislative or judicial, but work to apply its laws and regulations. - civil service (Noun)
The body of civilian employees of any level of government, not subject to political appointment and removal, normally hired and promoted largely on the basis of competitive examination.
Wikipedia 
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A civil servant or public servant is an employee who works in the civilian career public sector for a government department or agency. Many consider the study of civil service to be a part of the field of public administration.
Workers in non-departmental public bodies, (called QUANGOs in some countries) may also be called civil servants in context with statistics. All people that may be called civil servants together form a nation's Civil Service or Public Service.
