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A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as personal attendant to his employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime, valet de chambre was a role...

is a soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. Before the advent of motorized transport, an officer's batman was also...

popular culture of operatic singing. The term "factotum" refers to a general servant and comes from Latin where it literally means "do everything". Because...

public servants but not civil servants. Thus, in the UK, a civil servant is a public servant but a public servant is not necessarily a civil servant. The...

Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which the goal of the leader is to serve. This is different from traditional leadership where the leader's...

The General Confederation of Civil Servants (French: Confédération Générale de la Fonction Publique, CGFP) is a trade union representing public sector...

serious abuses, including slavery. Servant is an older English word for "domestic worker", though not all servants worked inside the home. Domestic service...

the name of the responsible servant had largely evolved from 'nurse' to 'nanny'. The Nursery Maid was a general servant within the nursery, and although...

The General Union of Civil Servants (Dutch: Algemene Bond van Ambtenaren, ABVA) was a trade union representing civil servants, including postal and telecommunication...

United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries such as Canada, a crown servant is a "person employed by the Crown". Although the term is not consistently...

documented events. The British Film Catalogue credits the 1898 film Our New General Servant by Robert W. Paul as the first British film to use intertitles. Film...

The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house...

role of the secretary-general is described as combining the functions and responsibilities of an advocate, diplomat, civil servant, and chief executive...

post of secretary general is of the rank of the Cabinet Secretary in the Government of India, who is the senior most civil servant to the Indian government...

civil service (French: Fonction publique française) is the set of civil servants (fonctionnaires) working for the Government of France. Not all employees...

secretary to the governor-general of New Zealand is a member in the household of the governor-general of New Zealand. They are the general manager of Government...

typically not the most senior civil servant in a department. Directors general typically report to a more senior civil servant, such as an assistant deputy minister...

An auditor general, also known in some countries as a comptroller general or comptroller and auditor general, is a senior civil servant charged with improving...

aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion; however, the rebellion did cause a general distrust of servant labor and fear of future rebellion. The fear of indentured servitude...

carpenters; Evan Evans, servant to George Evans; and Fawkner's servants, Charles Wyse, ploughman, Thomas Morgan, general servant, James Gilbert, blacksmith...