time-serving
See also: timeserving
English
Alternative forms
- timeserving
Noun
time-serving (uncountable)
- Opportunism.
- (computing) The functionality of a timeserver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
- time-servingness, timeservingness
Adjective
time-serving (comparative more time-serving, superlative most time-serving)
- Opportunistic; conforming to the status quo in order to serve one's own interests.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 85:
- And the man who had just been engaged in the most time-serving neglect of former, and a most cringing anticipation of new patrons, became forthwith the kind and hospitable host of strangers who had no claim upon him beyond their own isolated situation.
- 2016, Jonathan Meades, ‘Inside Job’, Literary Review, November:
- Harding brought with him a timeserving pal from The Times called Keith Blackmore, who was equally a stranger to broadcasting.
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Anagrams
- serving time