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  2. Civil service - Wikipedia

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    A civil service official, also known as a public servant or public employee, is a person employed in the public sector by a government department or agency for public sector undertakings. Civil servants work for central and local governments, and answer to the government, not a political party.

  3. Fictionary - Wikipedia

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    The game is played with a dictionary. Fictionary , also known as the Dictionary Game [ 1 ] or simply Dictionary , [ 2 ] is a word game in which players guess the definition of an obscure word. Each round consists of one player selecting and announcing a word from the dictionary , and other players composing a fake definition for it.

  4. United States federal civil service - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. civil service is managed by the Office of Personnel Management, which as of December 2011 reported approximately 2.79 million civil servants employed by the federal government, [2] [3] [4] including employees in the departments and agencies run by any of the three branches of government (the executive branch, legislative branch, and ...

  5. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    A specialized type of game controller that the player points at their television screen or monitor to interact with the game. live service games See Games as a service. loadout A specific set of in-game equipment, abilities, power-ups, and other items that a player sets for their character prior to the start of a game's match, round, or mission.

  6. Civil service reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Carl Schurz, founder of the Liberal Republican Party and prominent advocate of civil service reform. Civil service reform in the United States was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. Proponents denounced the distribution of government offices—the "spoils"—by the ...

  7. Public service (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Public service announcement, a message in the public interest disseminated by the media; Public service broadcasting, electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), an American public broadcaster; Public service company, a corporation or other non-governmental business entity that delivers ...

  8. Category:Lists of PC games - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Pages in category "Lists of PC games" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. ...

  9. Spoils system - Wikipedia

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    In politics and government, a spoils system (also known as a patronage system) is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends (), and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party—as opposed to a merit system, where offices are awarded or promoted on the basis of some ...