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		Definition of state servant in English: state servantnoun NZ A person who works for a department of national or local government; a public servant.  the Government doesn't have the power to sack a single state servant  Example sentencesExamples -  Publicly campaigning on a highly politically contentious referendum would be ruled out for any senior state servant.
 -  She's a senior state servant, for goodness' sake!
 -  Every year the Government pays for state servants, including MPs, to fly 440 million air miles on domestic, trans-Tasman and international air travel.
 -  Exemptions in the bill are related to the role of State servants - the police, and suchlike.
 -  State servants' employment conditions are a matter for their individual employer.
 -  The Government touts itself as being the great protector of the working-class people of this nation and a great advocate for State servants.
 -  The obligation of all State servants to remain politically neutral in the performance of their duties precludes neither an interest in political issues, nor involvement in a union.
 -  The Treasury secretary has told state servants to lift their game or have change forced on them.
 -  We want to help the judges deliver their role as state servants more efficiently.
 -  Why waste the valuable time of state servants by bothering them with relentless phone calls requesting information that can be put up on the Net.
 
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