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A civil servant or public servant is a person in the public sector employed for a government department or agency. (Wikipedia)

A Malawi court has sentenced a former junior civil servant to nine years in jail with hard labour for his part in the "cashgate" corruption scandal. (BBC News)

A civil servant is always a part of the administration, and is thus, a rung above other public servants. Even, a nurse working in a government hospital qualifies to be a public servant, though she cannot be compared to a district magistrate (DM) who belongs to the category of civil servants. (differencebetween.com)