civil service

English Thesaurus

1. government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations (noun.group)

hypernym	:	government officials, officialdom,
definition	:	people elected or appointed to administer a government (noun.group)

hyponym	:	whitehall,
definition	:	the British civil service (noun.group)

member holonym	:	civil servant,
definition	:	a public official who is a member of the civil service (noun.person)

member meronym	:	bureaucracy, bureaucratism,
definition	:	nonelective government officials (noun.group)