The phrase "single servant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a servant who works alone, rather than as part of a larger staff or team. Example: The wealthy family had a single servant who took care of all their household needs.
In today's world of outsourcing and contracting, name me a single civil servant who can declare themselves completely independent.
While the 200 or so staff in Downing Street leapt into action to support the new prime minister, I was given just a single civil servant.
Even before Labour allowed a single civil servant to investigate the benefits of high speed rail, we conducted a thorough feasibility study and committed ourselves to building a new high-speed rail line connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
A single aged servant, Yohela, had accompanied her on this trip, yet her hair, braided and beaded into the intricate patterns typical of the Afar, never bore the same configuration two days in a row.
Rachel Fuchs, of Arizona State University, writes that women who committed infanticide in the nineteenth century "were generally young, single domestic servants... alone and lacking family support, filled with shame, afraid to dishonor themselves and their families, and abandoned by their lovers".
His two younger brothers, age six and nine, also work along with their stepmother (they clean window panes, etc). in the house where they have a single room servants' quarter with free utilities.
This is, after all, the book that gave us Stevens – the closest rival Jeeves has ever had in the single-named literary servant sweepstakes.
They are accountants like Mr. Thornton, employees of small businesses, civil servants, single working mothers and those working part time or on contract.
It concluded that despite the government's professed intent to curb corruption, as well as an array of anticorruption institutions and numerous investigations into malpractice, not a single high-level civil servant, minister, or politician had been imprisoned, although activists engaged in anticorruption campaigns often faced arrest and criminal charges.
"I know it would have been a hard call for him, he has been a single-minded and determined servant of Australian cricket, but he rightfully put his family first and has paid the price for it.
