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Webster 1828 Edition


Time-serving

TI'ME-SERVING

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Adj.
Obsequiously complying with the humors of men in power.

TI'ME-SERVING

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Noun.
An obsequious compliance with the humors of men in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.

Definition 2024


time-serving

time-serving

See also: timeserving

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Noun

time-serving (uncountable)

  1. (computing) The action of a time-server.

Derived terms

  • time-servingness, timeservingness

Adjective

time-serving (comparative more time-serving, superlative most time-serving)

  1. Conforming to the status quo in order to serve one's own interests.
    • 2016, Jonathan Meades, ‘Inside Job’, Literary Review, November:
      Harding brought with him a timeserving pal from The Times called Keith Blackmore, who was equally a stranger to broadcasting.

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