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re-serve

re-serve verb: to deliver a document again.

Verb

re-serve (third-person singular simple present re-serves, present participle re-serving, simple past and past participle re-served)

  1. (transitive) To deliver a document again.
    • Where the Department of Homeland Security seeks to re-serve a respondent to effect proper service of a notice to appear that was defective under the regulatory requirements for serving minors under the age of 14, a continuance should be granted for that purpose.2016 December 16, Anne J. Greer, Matter of W-A-F-C-, Respondent, Board of Immigration Appeals, 26 I&N Dec. 880 (BIA 2016), archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021, page 880

Forms of re-serve

third-person singular presentre-serves
present participlere-serving
past participlere-served
pastre-served

Questions about re-serve

What does re-serve mean?
Re-serve means to deliver a document again.
What part of speech is re-serve?
Re-serve is a verb.
What is the past tense of re-serve?
The past tense of re-serve is re-served.

Words near re-serve in the dictionary

  1. re-searching
  2. re-sentence
  3. re-sentenced
  4. re-sentences
  5. re-sentencing
  6. re-serve
  7. re-served
  8. re-serves
  9. re-serving
  10. re-settle
  11. re-settled

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