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- adjective Not
civil .
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Under city personnel rules, noncivil-service employees typically earn two weeks' vacation each year for their first nine years on the city payroll, increasing to three weeks a year after nine years, and four weeks' vacation after 15 years.
Phillies Zone 2010
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Butkovitz reported, and Green subsequently confirmed, that the sheriff doesn't maintain records on sick leave and vacation days taken by his 17 noncivil-service aides.
Phillies Zone 2010
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Clearly we need two different words - one for the sacred unions that can be blessed in churches, mosques, synagogues or wherever else people apply noncivil criteria to marriage, and another for the civil contract.
NYT > Opinion 2009
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