govvy
nounEtymology Clipping of government + -y (diminutive).
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Slang A government job.
- In these regions new occupations are either state-created ‘govvies’ or in areas such as tourism, leisure and personal care.2003, Frank Webster, Theories of the Information Society:
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Slang A government employee.
- [...] this was one of the few places in the CIA tech world where I recall seeing a sizeable number of women. Some of them had the blue badges that identified them as government employees, or as contractors called them, "govvies".2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 126:
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Slang A government bond.