CIVIL SERVICE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations

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)