noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
civil servant
public servant
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
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The internal fax was addressed to a dozen civil servants within the Department of Social Security.
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And when there are bad civil servants , they cast all government programs into disrepute.
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Whatever the outcome the long-standing, unwritten code of behaviour that governs relations between ministers and civil servants would be gravely battered.
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Even in 1970, public schools produced 62 percent of top civil servants and 80 percent of the top judiciary.
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Several references have already been made to the support of ministers by civil servants .
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Focardi's research shows that civil servants were told in blunt language to fake the quest for justice.
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Those in professional posts, such as bankers and civil servants , could travel up to 50 or 60 miles to work.
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Certainly, it is not the function of select committees to discipline civil servants .
domestic
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To help support her growing family, she worked as a domestic servant in the houses of rich Anglo people in Pasadena.
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Edinburgh had practically no textile workers, men or women; but as we have seen it had a great many domestic servants .
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For most domestic servants though, the occupation was a temporary life-cycle one.
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Presumably the decline of domestic servants to launder the disgusting handkerchiefs.
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In Oxford, out of 312 boys, 119 became errand lads, while 110 girls out of 223 became domestic servants .
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She was destined to remain a spinster, finding work as a domestic servant in - of all places - far-away Surrey.
faithful
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To an old and faithful servant of the ultramontane papacy such as Ottaviani, it was all the most absolute madness.
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Your faithful servant chokes to death, and you do nothing!
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With my humble duty, I remain, Your Majesty's faithful and devoted servant .
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He alone had the key to each quarter: he and his faithful servant Robert alone knew the key to his secret.
loyal
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He would never be a rival, he would remain the loyal servant of the Chairman.
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I came here to be a good lord as well as the King's most loyal servant !
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It was a shabby finale for a grand and loyal Palace servant .
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It's loyal servants the Lancaster and Andovers bid their farewells.
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Two of the King's most loyal servants have died here, foully murdered.
obedient
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I am, Madam, Your obedient servant ... This last enigma - the enigma of his fate - would remain.
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I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant .
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Until now Justin has been an obedient civil servant , content to toe the official line-in short, a plodder.
old
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She ran indoors, past the old servant , and hurried into the drawing-room.
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Mayor Susan Golding introduced the 52-year-\#old career public servant in a light-hearted afternoon news conference at City Hall.
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When I knocked at the door, Mr Rochester's old servant , John, opened it and recognized me.
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An old servant opened the door.
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I left him, and went to find the old servant , Joseph.
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He paid his rent, and Mr Carnford gave him the name of an old servant to look after him.
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To an old and faithful servant of the ultramontane papacy such as Ottaviani, it was all the most absolute madness.
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The old servant emerged from behind a pillar, silently opened the heavy door just enough for Claudel to slip through.
other
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If other servants resented him, these two carefully shielded him.
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To what extent does the increasing militancy of other civil servants influence policy making?
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As such, they were treated as menials, on a level with cooks, footmen and other servants .
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Perhaps there were no other servants , I thought.
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The new Viceroy was assigned greater authority than any other servant of the crown.
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The other servants were at market or running errands.
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Like the other servants who had witnessed the incident, I just looked away, pretending nothing had happened.
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But I don't want any other civil servants turning up.
public
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The position of public servants must be uneasy when the Cabinet is zealous to prune expenditure.
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Mayor Susan Golding introduced the 52-year-old career public servant in a light-hearted afternoon news conference at City Hall.
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The Council included a number of former public servants as well as bankers and academics, rather than career politicians.
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Appointed for life, they remain the most insulated of public servants .
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Surely no-one in Castlereagh would begrudge a modest investment in proper safe, clean and comfortable working accommodation for their public servants ?
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Despite his eventual betrayal of me-for which I have forgiven him-Hu was a superb implementer and an outstanding public servant .
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Something of the concerned public servant had crept into his manner.
royal
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Another confidential royal servant , however, fared less well.
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Because of Gloucester's influence in the duchy, royal servants naturally looked to him for lordship.
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The duke, in other words, contributed to the royal connection as well as providing a focus for existing royal servants .
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It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy.
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Dudley, a trusted royal servant , was prepared to see an expansion of ducal influence in the county.
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By 1483 some at least of the royal servants were sufficiently committed to Gloucester to play an active role in his coup.
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The evidence seems to point to a legal style which a number of royal servants were competent to use.
senior
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Many ministers and senior civil servants are convinced Britain will be dragged into the civil war in 1993.
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Action has been taken against several dozen senior civil servants .
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The advice of senior civil servants was especially influential at this period.
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A working party consisting of senior civil servants and an academic political scientist was appointed.
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Ministers and senior civil servants are not amused.
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He looked like a senior civil servant .
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It was a leafy place; professional people, merchants, senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time.
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A rectangular conference table and four chairs, of a type provided for senior public servants , stood between the tall windows.
top
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The judges still got 18.6 percent and top civil servants averaged 14.3 percent.
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Even in 1970, public schools produced 62 percent of top civil servants and 80 percent of the top judiciary.
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Moreover, top civil servants are not only involved in policy formation.
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I am willing to wager that the Government will not present proposals before the election about the salary of top civil servants .
■ NOUN
girl
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Now I must go to say goodbye to Tess Darrell, and apologise for half-trained servant girls .
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Indira Varma plays Maya, a saucy servant girl talented in the art of love.
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No, he was not, could not be drawn to the little servant girl .
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There is, for instance, the inevitable saucy servant girl , played in sprightly fashion by Suzanne Bouchard.
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She had only recently arrived in Dublin, a servant girl in the house of Captain and Mrs Lewis.
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His bedchamber had access to the servant girls' quarters and to the rooms of adolescent girls upstairs.
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I know I am just an ignorant servant girl , aged seventeen, but I do know some Latin.
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He is John Proctor, who becomes caught in the madness after his affair with a servant girl played by Winona Ryder.
■ VERB
become
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How the hell did a man stop being an agent and suddenly become a civil servant ?
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In Oxford, out of 312 boys, 119 became errand lads, while 110 girls out of 223 became domestic servants .
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He became a civil servant in Milan, and died in 1858, aged 74.
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At about this time, there arrived in Medmelton a Cornish man seeking work and he became the servant of a farmer.
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If his new wife has a child I will become like a servant .
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He was relying on the hope that he might, at least, become a servant back in his father's house.
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Mary Leapor at some point in her adolescence became a domestic servant .
send
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She asked the shopkeeper's name so that she would know to whom to send her servant .
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Today Claudine sent a servant out to Cholon for me, with the letter.
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Dorian sent his servant to fetch the things that Campbell needed, and the two men waited silently.
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So they send one of their servants down to force it open, but he never comes back.
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Santerre sent for servants and, at his direction, they dragged out a huge log drying in the stables for Yuletide.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
your humble servant
your obedient servant
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even with the furnace on, he had the servants put coal in the grates of most of the rooms.
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His servant hastened to make all ready, build fires and heat water for the baths and prepare food.
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Is he master of this universe or the servant of its masters?
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The servant was frightened and ran away.
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To be this man's servant - what was there to be proud in that?