释义 |
civil serviceˌcivil ˈservice noun - Almost 40 percent of the country's budget goes on the 57,000-strong civil service.
- As for the civil service, it had to be cut down to the lowest level necessary.
- Bureaucratic governments can do none of these things easily, thanks to their civil service regulations and tenure systems.
- I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat.
- In January cuts had been implemented in the civil service to reduce the public-sector wage bill.
- Instead, he became preoccupied with civil service and tried to put more and more city employees under its protection.
- Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax.
the civil service the government departments that manage the affairs of the country |