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time-server

time-server is the alternative form of timeserver.

Meaning of timeserver

Noun

timeserver (plural timeservers)

  1. A person who conforms to current opinions, especially for reasons of personal advantage; an opportunist.
    • Another of Lilly's confidants was the time-server, John Gauden, who was distinctly anti-Laudian in outlook, but who nevertheless became Bishop of Worcester at the Restoration.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 355
  2. Someone who performs a job for the required time only, making a minimum of effort.
  3. A device, node or program that transmits the correct time to clients in a network.
  4. (obsolete) Someone who honors their commitments only when it is personally easy to do so.

Forms of time-server

pluraltime-servers

Questions about time-server

What is time-server the alternative form of?
Time-server is the alternative form of timeserver.

Words near time-server in the dictionary

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

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