timeserver

English

From time +‎ server.

timeserver (plural timeservers)

(obsolete) Someone who honours their commitments only when it is personally easy to do so. [16th c.]
A person who conforms to current opinions, especially for reasons of personal advantage; an opportunist. [from 16th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 355:
  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.
Someone who performs a job for the required time only, making a minimum of effort. [from 19th c.]
(computing) A device, node or program that transmits the correct time to clients in a network.

opportunist

Arabic: اِنْتِهازِيّ‎ m (intihāziyy)
Bulgarian: опортюни́ст (bg) m (oportjuníst), опортюни́стка f (oportjunístka), нагажда́ч m (nagaždáč), нагажда́чка f (nagaždáčka)
Polish: oportunista (pl) m, oportunistka (pl) f
Russian: оппортуни́ст (ru) m (opportuníst), оппортуни́стка (ru) f (opportunístka), приспособле́нец (ru) m (prisposoblénec), приспособле́нка (ru) f (prisposoblénka)
Swedish: ögontjänare (sv) c, opportunist (sv) c, kappvändare c, väderhane (sv) c, myglare c

device