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
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 )
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 )
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
