time-serving

See also: timeserving

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Noun

time-serving (uncountable)

  1. Opportunism.
  2. (computing) The functionality of a timeserver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Adjective

time-serving (comparative more time-serving, superlative most time-serving)

  1. Opportunistic; conforming to the status quo in order to serve one's own interests.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, 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 November, Jonathan Meades, “Inside Job”, in Literary Review:
      Harding brought with him a timeserving pal from The Times called Keith Blackmore, who was equally a stranger to broadcasting.

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