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Definition of Civil service
1. Noun. Government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations.
Generic synonyms: Government Officials, Officialdom
Group relationships: Bureaucracy, Bureaucratism
Member holonyms: Civil Servant
Definition of Civil service
1. Noun. In parliamentary forms of government, the branches of government that are not military, legislative or judicial, but work to apply its laws and regulations ¹
2. Noun. the body of civilian employees of any level of government, not subject to political appointment and removal, normally hired and promoted largely on the basis of competitive examination. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Civil Service
Literary usage of Civil service
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"The National Assembly of civil service Commissions held its tenth annual session
at Boston, June 13-15. It is manifestly its duty to lay plans and furnish ..."
2. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1920)
"The conditions of the civil service at this time were such as to make the ...
He had been an active and zealous advocate of civil service reform since the ..."
3. Calendar by Galway, University College, University College, Galway, Auckland University College (1899)
"The subjects of Examination for the Home civil service are substantially the same
as those prescribed for the Indian civil service. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"We are to listen to-night to remarks on civil service reform from one whose official
... Theodore Roosevelt, United States civil service Commissioner. ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Library Association by American Library Association (1914)
"tion, it is most important that the examinations should be arranged under the
authority and jurisdiction, and with the concurrence, of the civil service ..."
6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"Soon after the inauguration, it became evident that any reliance on Grant for
the accomplishment of reform in the civil service was vain. ..."
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