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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of serve.
  • noun Plural form of serve.

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Examples

  • In Italy financial engineering often means manipulation just short of fraud; in Japan, the term serves as the translation for zaiteku, the questionable practice of investing corporate profits in the Japanese stock market, relying on the bull market to boost earnings where hard selling cannot.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • Judging from the lesson, the phrase serves visitors well following their efforts to use showers, lamps, and TVs in Moscow hotel rooms.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Judging from the lesson, the phrase serves visitors well following their efforts to use showers, lamps, and TVs in Moscow hotel rooms.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Defining the term serves to clarify the perspective of our work in this book.

    Cooperative Climate~ Chapter 1 2008

  • So the term serves as a useful signifier: Bullshit ahead, and I am spared.

    "The Waterboard Thrill Ride" art installation. Ann Althouse 2008

  • The term serves to cover those opaque earthenwares which are fired until vitrification or an external glassing results.

    The Story of Porcelain Sara Ware Bassett 1920

  • Designed with decades of electric and automotive experience, the ALIAS serves a growing niche of automotive enthusiasts who want an affordable electric vehicle with the performance, looks and handling of an impressive sports car.

    unknown title 2011

  • But his careless use of the term serves his purpose of caricature and attack well as he has reduced religion to its most distasteful expressions.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • But his careless use of the term serves his purpose of caricature and attack well as he has reduced religion to its most distasteful expressions.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • But his careless use of the term serves his purpose of caricature and attack well as he has reduced religion to its most distasteful expressions.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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