A person who works for a department of national or local government; a public servant.
the Government doesn't have the power to sack a single state servant
Example sentencesExamples
Publicly campaigning on a highly politically contentious referendum would be ruled out for any senior state servant.
She's a senior state servant, for goodness' sake!
Every year the Government pays for state servants, including MPs, to fly 440 million air miles on domestic, trans-Tasman and international air travel.
Exemptions in the bill are related to the role of State servants - the police, and suchlike.
State servants' employment conditions are a matter for their individual employer.
The Government touts itself as being the great protector of the working-class people of this nation and a great advocate for State servants.
The obligation of all State servants to remain politically neutral in the performance of their duties precludes neither an interest in political issues, nor involvement in a union.
The Treasury secretary has told state servants to lift their game or have change forced on them.
We want to help the judges deliver their role as state servants more efficiently.
Why waste the valuable time of state servants by bothering them with relentless phone calls requesting information that can be put up on the Net.