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    CIVIL SERVICE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinationsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("civil service" is a kind of...):

    government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

    Meronyms (members of "civil service"):

    civil servant (a public official who is a member of the civil service)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil service"):

    Whitehall (the British civil service)

    Holonyms ("civil service" is a member of...):

    bureaucracy; bureaucratism (nonelective government officials)

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