civil servant

1. 1.

   a public official who is a member of the civil service

   Broaderofficial

   Part ofcivil service

Questions about civil servant

What does civil servant mean?

civil servant means "a public official who is a member of the civil service".

Is civil servant a common word?

civil servant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.