Acivil servant orpublic servant is anemployee who works in the civilian careerpublic sector for agovernmentdepartment oragency. Many consider the study of civil service to be a part of the field ofpublic administration. Who is a civil servant and who is not is different in different countries.
Workers in non-departmental public bodies, (calledQuangos in some countries) may also be called civil servants in context withstatistics. All people that may be called civil servants together form a nation'sCivil Service orPublic Service.
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