time-server
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[edit]Noun
[edit]time-server (plural time-servers)
- Alternative form of timeserver
- 1962 November, “Talking of Trains: The one-day strike”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
- Many railway officers complain that the deep interest of the old-school railwaymen in their job is dying; the B.T.C.'s new approach seems calculated to hasten its death and breed thousands more time-servers.
References
[edit]- “time-server”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.