Adjective
1. applying to ordinary citizens;
2. not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others;
3. of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state;
4. of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals;
5. (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life;
6. of or in a condition of social order;
He said a civil good morning.
The announcement led to violent civil disorders.
People are predicting civil unrest in the area.
Civil court proceedings are notoriously slow.
The period from the War of Independence to the Civil War is the babyhood of the United States.
One source of recruitment is the civil service.
Man is a civil creature.
Voting is the exercise of a civil right.
He made a very civil bow to me.
civil servants who seem to think the world ends north of Watford
The strike has taken on overtones of a civil rights campaign.
The country had witnessed scenes of tumult not far removed from civil war.
The Channel Tunnel project is the biggest civil engineering project in Europe.
He had been opposed by a coalition of about 50 civil rights, women's and Latino organizations.
A former Finance Minister and five senior civil servants are accused of fraud.
For two decades the country has been ravaged by civil war and foreign intervention.
They have purged thousands from the upper levels of the civil service.
The real danger is civil unrest in the east of the country.
They move freely from one department to another as they ascend the civil service ladder.
Ethnic tensions among the republics could lead to civil war.
Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
The daily grind of government is done by Her Majesty's Civil Service.
We have been preparing our fighters to adjust themselves to civil society.
Hundreds of junior civil servants have to be put up in hotel rooms and temporary hostels.
The civil aviation minister ordered all the planes to be grounded.
This form of civil disobedience isn't a particularly new phenomenon.
The date of the document can be deduced from references to the Civil War.
That ruling had drawn sharp criticism from civil rights groups.
polite, civil, courteous
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