serve one's time
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
serve one's time (third-person singular simple present serves one's time, present participle serving one's time, simple past and past participle served one's time)
- To hold a professional, political, etc. position for a set period of time.
- Alternative form of serve time (“serve a jail sentence”)
Further reading[edit]
- “serve one's time”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.