government officials
Public sector employees
Government officials are people who hold positions in government, whether elected, appointed, or hired.
The term covers everyone from presidents and senators to bureaucrats and clerks—anyone exercising governmental authority or performing governmental functions.
Government officials refused to comment on the investigation.
The phrase often appears in news coverage of policy decisions or misconduct.
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- judgeOne who decides
- clerkOffice record-keeper
- ombudsmanPublic complaints investigator
- ministerReligious leader or serve
cabinet members · secretary · press secretary · chargé d'affaires · envoy · bureaucrats · public sector · president · attaché · state department · magistrate · governor · prosecutor · alderman · city council · prefect · director-general · assemblyman
- bureaucracy in filmred tape, paperwork, civil servants, agencies, hierarchies
- governmentministries, legislature, judiciary, executive branch, ministry
- African LeadersNelson Mandela, Haile Selassie, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Muammar Gaddafi
- federal employeesfederal employees, FBI agent, federal workers, CIA agent, civil servants
- Kayasthascribes, record keepers, endogamy
government officialscorporate employees
Business organization's hired workers
businesspeople · independent contractors · freelancers · entrepreneurs · industrialists
government officialsordinary citizens
civilians · the public · constituents · subjects · commoners
government officialsgrassroots activists
Community-based political advocates
dissidents · rebels · revolutionaries · outsiders · community organizers