English-Portuguese translations for servant

• criado
  O anti-dumping é um bom criado mas é um mau patrão. Anti-dumping is a good servant but a bad master.
  Gostaria também que fossem criados mecanismos destinados a assegurar a viabilidade a longo prazo do sistema de reformas actual, precisamente porque há que preservar os interesses dos funcionários. I would also have liked to see mechanisms put in place to ensure the long-term viability of the current pensions system, precisely because we must protect civil servants' interests.
• empregado
  Temos de garantir que o direito laboral seja aplicado e que os funcionários e os empregados das Instituições sejam protegidos. We must ensure that employment law is applied and that public servants and employees of the institutions are protected.
  por escrito. - (EN) As novas regras de harmonização para os assistentes parlamentares ("outros agentes”) não são satisfatórias do ponto de pista de um empregado nórdico. in writing. - The new harmonisation rules for parliamentary assistants ('other civil servants') are not satisfactory from a Nordic employee perspective.
• mão-de-obra
• servente
• serviçal
• servidor
  Precisamos de provar que somos os servidores do povo e não os seus senhores. We need to demonstrate that we are the servants of the people, and not their masters.
  Os elementos da administração têm o dever de actuar como servidores do público e não como protectores do sistema. There is a duty on administrators to see themselves as servants of the public and not as protectors of the system.
  É por os Estados-Membros terem passado de supostas entidades soberanas no quadro da UE a seus servidores? Is it because Member States are turned from the theoretical masters of the EU into its servants?

Definition of servant

• One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave
• One who serves another, providing help in some manner
• A person who dedicates themselves to God
• A person of low condition or spirit
• To subject

Examples

• There are three servants in the household, the butler and two maids
• She is quite the humble servant, the poor in this city owe much to her but she expects nothing

Related words

• observant
• servants
• unobservant
• maidservant
• manservant
• observantly
• maid-servant
• inobservant
• man-servant