Public Service

Definition: Public Service

Public Service

Noun

1. Employment within a government system (especially in civil service).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Public Service

Crosswords: Public Service

What a finale to a lifetime in the public service! (Kind Hearts and Coronets; writing credit: Roy Horniman; Robert Hamer)

Math. So as a public service here tonight I thought I would offer a brief (New Math; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

You In Public Service (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Arizona Public Service Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Central Vermont Public Service Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Public Service Co Of Oklahoma: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Maine Public Service Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Caught Between the Dog and the Fireplug, Or, How to Survive Public Service (reference)

• Psychology and Public Policy: Balancing Public Service and Professional Need (reference)

• Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional Practice (Studies in Government and Public Policy) (reference)

• The Cps Story: An Illustrated History of Civilian Public Service (reference)

• 'We Have Just Begun to Not Fight': An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in Civilian Public Service During World War II (Twayne's Oral History s (reference)

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Periodicals

• Florida Public Service Commission Reporter (reference)

• Public Service Magazine (reference)

• Public Service Superannuation Act (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Dr. Martin M. Cummings receives the Rockefeller Public Service Award]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Public Service Company, generating station, Mercer plant. Turbine house, of generating station. Credit: Library of Congress.

Award for outstanding representative public service. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Promote public service announcements, lectures, and panel discussions on both commercial and public radio and television on the subject of erectile dysfunction. (references)

Business

The end-users are rural and small city public service cooperatives. (references)

Cable operators can take advantage of tax credits from the PIA by airing public service announcements or advertisements in their stations. (references)

These are designed to adversely affect passenger cars, but have correspondingly little effect on public service and emergency vehicles driven at the same or higher speeds. (references)

Children

Cote d'Ivoire

The Ministries of Public Health and of Employment, Public Service, and Social Security seek to safeguard the welfare of children, and the Government also has encouraged the formation of NGO's such as the Abidjan Legal Center for the Defense of Children. (references)

Morocco

The ONDE continued to publish public service advertisements in leading publications. (references)

Peru

Although construction regulations mandate barrier-free access by persons with physical disabilities to public service buildings, no effort has been made to implement this provision. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

The ban was lifted when the King invited him to appear in a public service advertisement for the Mohammed V Foundation. (references)

Grenada

The television news often carried reports on opposition activities, including coverage of political rallies held by various political parties and candidates, public forums featuring political leaders of each of the major parties, and other public service broadcasts. (references)

Mozambique

The newspapers continued pushing for reform of the justice system, for renewed efforts to fight corruption, and to reform public service. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

About 53% of all private sector and public service employees are labor union members. (references)

Solomon Islands

The initial steps in the program, for which it hopes to obtain support from the World Bank and the IMF, include downsizing the public service by 5%, payment of outstanding arrears on government debt, and increasing revenues both by applying new taxes and by eliminating import and export duty exemptions granted by previous governments. (references)

Taiwan

The Control Yuan (CY) monitors the efficiency of public service and investigates instances of corruption. (references)

Human Rights

Vanuatu

Among other provisions, it requires that members of the Ombudsman's staff be appointed by the Public Service Commission rather than by the Ombudsman and provides that persons interviewed by the Ombudsman may have legal representation present at the interview. (references)

Guatemala

The SAE provided a copy to the Human Rights Ombudsman, who offered access to the database as a public service for those who wished to learn if their names appeared on the list. (references)

Guatemala

The centers have installed modernized docket and case filing systems in the courts, thereby increasing efficiency and public service while significantly decreasing corruption in the disappearance of case files. (references)

Minorities

Bahamas

Leaders of the Haitian community approve of the Government's approach to the repatriation of illegal migrants and point to the high number of ethnic Haitians in the public service. (references)

Mauritius

In 1999 the Rodrigues Government Employees Association sued the Public Service Commission and the Government for placing different service conditions on those civil servants who were born and lived on the island of Rodrigues compared to civil servants who were born on the main island of Mauritius and worked on Rodrigues. (references)

Guyana

Recruitment efforts targeted at Indo-Guyanese candidates for the uniformed services generally have met with an unenthusiastic response, with most qualified Indo-Guyanese candidates opting for a business or professional career over military, police, or public service. (references)

Political Economy

INDONESIA

All organized workers, except those engaged in public service, have the legal right to strike. (references)

AUSTRIA

The budget consolidation process is hard, however, as the federal deficit had to come down from 2.5 percent of GDP in 1999. Strong economic growth and swift implementation of tax increases and pension reform helped the new government to limit the federal deficit to 1.4 percent of GDP in 2000 and the consolidated public sector deficit to 1.1 percent of GDP. The government intends to further reduce the federal deficit to 1.1 percent in 2001 and to 0.7 percent by 2002, and to balance the consolidated public sector budget by 2002. Reduced economic growth prospects, increased spending on family allowances and halting public service reform, however, make the target more difficult to hit. (references)

Venezuela

The military is involved heavily with public service projects. (references)

Political Rights

Monaco

The percentage of women in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage of the population; however, women are active in public service. (references)

Fiji

However, until the takeover of Parliament in May 2000, an increasing number of women were rising to prominent positions in politics and public service. (references)

Bahamas

A woman also heads the Ministry of Public Service and Cultural Affairs. (references)

Travel

Saudi Arabia

Air travel is preferred for domestic travel with public service restricted to the sole national airline, Saudia. (references)

Women

Czech Republic

A series of public service announcements on radio and television received nationwide attention. (references)

East Timor

The unit provides training to women entering public service and it attempts to ensure women have a voice in the new government and civil society structures. (references)

Worker Rights

Nauru

For government workers, public service regulations determine salaries, working hours, vacation periods, and other employment matters. (references)

Namibia

The Mine Workers Union Investment Company, which consists of several large public service, teachers, mining, and maritime unions, is critical of the Government. (references)

Sweden

The law also provides all employees with a minimum of 5 weeks of paid annual leave; labor contracts often provide more, particularly for higher ranking private sector employees and older public service workers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "public service": New York Public Service Commission ♦ public service accounting ♦ public service broadcasting ♦ public service vehicle. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

обществена заслуга, държавна служба. (various references)

Danish

offentlig tjeneste. (various references)

Dutch

overheid (administration, government), openbare dienst (public utilities, public utility company, statutory undertaker). (various references)

Finnish

valtionvirassa (in public service), julkinen laskentatoimi (governmental accounting, public service accounting). (various references)

French

service public (public utility), fonction publique. (various references)

German

oeffentlicher Dienst, dienst an der allgemeinheit, Öffentlicher Dienst, öffentlicher dienstleistungsbetrieb, öffentlicher dienst (public sector, public sector(of the economy), public utilities, public utility company, statutory undertaker). (various references)

Greek 

δημόσια υπηρεσία (civil service, utility). (various references)

Italian

servizio pubblico (public utility, utility), amministrazione pubblica. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

服務 (duty), 公役 , 公共 (communal, community, public, society). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふくむ (duty, to be charged or loaded with, to be dripping with, to be full of, to be suffused with, to bear in mind, to cherish, to comprise, to contain, to embrace, to harbor, to have, to hold, to hold in the mouth, to include, to understand), �"うきょう (affidavit, Catholicism, communal, community, deposition, healthy economy, prosperous conditions, public, reverberation, society, the Book of Filial Piety, width, width and narrowness, your instructions or suggestions), �"うえき (commerce, public, public good, trade). (various references)

Manx

shirveish theayagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ublicpay ervicesay

Portuguese

serviço público, função pública (office). (various references)

Romanian

serviciu public (utility). (various references)

Russian 

коммунальные услуги (utilities). (various references)

Spanish

servicio público, funcion publica. (various references)

Swedish

offentligt räkenskapsväsen (governmental accounting, public service accounting). (various references)

Turkish

kamu hizmeti (public utility, utility), devlet hizmeti (civil service), amme hizmeti. (various references)

liturgia. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: preclusive.

-4 letters: crepuscle, crucibles, prelusive, publicise, pulverise, reclusive, republics, repulsive.

-5 letters: bluesier, cervices, cicelies, crescive, crevices, crucible, cubicles, cupelers, epicures, liveries, prelives, preslice, republic, resplice, superlie, surplice, verbiles, versicle.