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CIVIL SERVICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("civil service" is a kind of...):
government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)
Meronyms (members of "civil service"):
civil servant (a public official who is a member of the civil service)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil service"):
Whitehall (the British civil service)
Holonyms ("civil service" is a member of...):
bureaucracy; bureaucratism (nonelective government officials)
