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timeserver

/ˈtʌɪmˌsəːvə/

timeserver noun: a person who conforms to current opinions, especially for reasons of personal advantage; an opportunist.

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.

timeserver meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Arabic

timeserver in Tamil

இடையிட நிலையர்

timeserver in Urdu

زمانہ ساز

timeserver in Arabic

opportunist
اِنْتِهازِيّ intihāziyy

Forms of timeserver

pluraltimeservers
alternative formtime-server

Origin of timeserver

From time + server.

Questions about timeserver

What does timeserver mean?
Timeserver means a person who conforms to current opinions, especially for reasons of personal advantage; an opportunist.
What is timeserver in Tamil?
Timeserver in Tamil is இடையிட நிலையர். See Timeserver meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is timeserver?
Timeserver is a noun.
How do you pronounce timeserver?
Timeserver is pronounced /ˈtʌɪmˌsəːvə/ (UK).
What is the plural of timeserver?
The plural of timeserver is timeservers.

Words near timeserver in the dictionary

  1. timescape
  2. timescapes
  3. Timese
  4. timesed
  5. timeseries
  6. timeserver
  7. timeservers
  8. timeserving
  9. timeservingness
  10. timeservings
  11. timeses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: timeserver (page history and authors); timeserver (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); timeserver (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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