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time-served

time-served adjective: having completed an apprenticeship or period of training, thus acquiring skills.

Adjective

time-served (not comparable)

  1. Having completed an apprenticeship or period of training, thus acquiring skills.
    • Liverpool have looked a little jaded from their exertions in recent weeks and there was an air of desperation about their attempts to restore equality in the closing minutes in the face of the experience and game management of opponents who are time-served masters of the Champions League art.2022 May 28, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport
  2. Having completed many years of service.
    • The introduction of Classes 507 (built 1978-80) and '508' (1979-80) allowed the withdrawal of time-served London Midland & Scottish Railway '502s' and '503s' - designs that dated back to the 1930s.2023 February 8, Tony Streeter, “Kirkdale: home to Merseyrail's new '777s'”, in RAIL, number 976, page 36

Questions about time-served

What does time-served mean?
Time-served means having completed an apprenticeship or period of training, thus acquiring skills.
What part of speech is time-served?
Time-served is an adjective.

Words near time-served in the dictionary

  1. time-scale
  2. time-scales
  3. time-sensitive
  4. time-series animation
  5. time-series animations
  6. time-served
  7. time-server
  8. time-servers
  9. time-serving
  10. time-servingness
  11. time-share

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