| 词汇 | servant |
| 释义 | servant noun uk /ˈsɜː.vənt/ us /ˈsɝː.vənt/ B2[ C ] a person who is employed in another person's house, doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning, especially in the past（尤指旧时的）佣人，仆人 public servant( servant of the state) a person who works for the government: 公务员，公仆 Public servants should be incorruptible.公务员应该做到清正廉洁。 His father's family lived in a big house with servants. She has servants to do all her work for her. People who serve other people anti-slavery below/above stairsidiom boot boy butler dogsbody gofer handmaiden housemaid labourer lackey lady's maid retainer serf serfdom skivvy slave slave trade slaver valet vassal servant | American Dictionaryservant noun[ C ] us/ˈsɜr·vənt/ a person who is employed to do work for another person, esp. to work in another person’s home doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning Servant is also used in combination to mean someone working for the public: a civil/public servant Examples of servantservant Most of the entries in these handbooks relate to the servants and day labourers (both male and female) whom this farmer employed. In particular, we need to look at the complex ways in which imperial servants themselves actually negotiated these codes. Contrary to the instrumental model of a legally completely ' 'programmed' ' administration, civil servants enjoy considerable flexibility and autonomy when implementing political programmes. The young unmarried women did not move out of their sibling's household to become, for instance, shop assistants or domestic servants. However, the self-interest of legislators who were country gentlemen employing servants and farm laborers was also a significant factor. Gatekeeping took a variety of forms with the civil servants. Such men remained the under-labourers, the privates, even the servants of the dominant, innovative, geological elite. The union complained that so few cooks could hardly provide food and act as servants for the ten guards assigned to them. In keeping with the bureau-shaping models assertions, senior public servants tended to stay in parent departments, retained policy and strategic roles. Agriculture appears, therefore, to have been carried out with the assistance of thirteen labourers and only three servants in husbandry. Bureaucratic autonomy was ensured in the first decades of independence, by the retention of expatriate senior civil servants. Now ministers, more and more, come to look on their top civil servants as managers running a department, rather than as policy advisers. In a comparison of real administrative costs and real term expenditure, the data support the bureau-shaping thesis that public servants work to maximise their budgets. Sectional interests were especially powerful, and conquest was driven forward by ambitious colonels, civil servants and professional patriots. Detection, prosecution, and punishment of corrupt public servants became lax and inefficacious. See all examples of servant These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withservantservantThese are words often used in combination with servant. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. domestic servant Similarly, there was no sizeable difference between the incomes of a domestic weaver and a domesticservant. faithful servant He has been a true and faithfulservant to all his constituents, the nation and the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 female servant No femaleservant is named in the debt entries, but women are cited as such more generally in these court rolls. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with servant |
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