fonctionnaire in a sentence

1. The salaries and pensions of these fonctionnaires represent about 40% of the national budget.

2. In 1942, the Tunisian government legalised the status of sex workers as "fonctionnaires" – or civil servants and since then the state has collected taxes and supervised the women.

3. I was working as a research engineer for CNRS, a coveted “fonctionnaire” position, and was assigned to this lab called CPPM next to the insanely beautiful callanques on the Mediterranean.

4. Under pressure: since 1942, the Tunisian government legalised the status of sex workers as "fonctionnaires" – or civil servants and since then the state has collected taxes and supervised the women.

5. Fonctionnaires and EU finance ministers will pass judgement on the British (or Dutch, or Danish, or French) budgets before the elected bodies of these ancient and sovereign nations have seen the proposals.