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Civil Service
A term originally applied to the part of the service of the East India Company carried on by the covenanted servants who did not belong to the Army or Navy (cf. service). Now: a collective term for all the non-warlike branches of the public administrative service of the state, including the diplomatic intercourse, the working of the post office and telegraphs, the educational institutions controlled by the state, and the collection of the revenue, etc. Also, the body of servants of the state employed in any of these departments. Often attrib. as in Civil Service Commissioners; Civil Service Supply Association and the like. civil servant, a member of the Civil Service.
c1785Carraccioli Life of Clive III. 164 A considerable sum..contributed privately by gentlemen in the civil service, in aid of the military cause. 1800Ld. Wellesley (title) Notes on the necessity of a special collegiate training of Civil Servants. 1833Asiatic Jrnl. X. 324 The two branches of the Indian service, civil and military. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 520 Mr. Hutchinson was in the Civil Service of the Company, Commercial Resident at Anjengo. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 44 To assist the Supreme Government of India..a highly-educated civil service, consisting of some hundreds of members, is placed at its disposal. 1861Sat. Rev. 27 July 90 When a Civil Servant's mind has reached the stage of sub⁓acute discontent which has not quite strength enough to develope into resignation. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. x. (1876) 259 At the Civil-Service-Store in the Haymarket. 1867Yates Black Sheep (Hoppe), Down to the ‘Civil Servant of the Company’. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 272 He had already appointed an able Civil-Service Commission. Ibid. CXXVII. 275 The fluctuations of civil-service reform. |