CIVIL SERVICE


Meaning of CIVIL SERVICE in English

noun

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Almost 40 percent of the country's budget goes on the 57,000-strong civil service .

As for the civil service , it had to be cut down to the lowest level necessary.

Bureaucratic governments can do none of these things easily, thanks to their civil service regulations and tenure systems.

I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat.

In January cuts had been implemented in the civil service to reduce the public-sector wage bill.

Instead, he became preoccupied with civil service and tried to put more and more city employees under its protection.

Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax.

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