Definition of subservient in English:

subservient

adjective səbˈsəːvɪəntsəbˈsərviənt

1Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.
无条件顺从的
she was subservient to her parents
她对父母百依百顺。
Example sentencesExamples
- A court could likewise restrict a father's teaching his children that women must be subservient to men, since such speech might undermine the mother's authority.
- Nigerian women are very subservient to their men, so the project encourages personal development so that the women can become more assertive in deciding on a better life for themselves and their families.
- A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is subservient to the husband.
- She is meek and subservient to the needs of her God.
- The unit's public affairs officers are subservient to the information operations experts, military and defense officials said.
- The village lad they ‘employ’ is very much subservient to his ‘employers’.
- The UK government should not become subservient to an all-powerful Frankfurt, just like local government has little power in the UK at the moment.
- He is a hardcore Libertarian who wishes nothing more than to reduce the working class to an endentured slave class, subservient to the will of Corporate Fascism.
- Once defeated, the Zulu king became subservient to British rule and lost control over the trade in the kingdom, including the trade in beads.
- Meanwhile, Richard explained, ‘the archbishops of York didn't want to be subservient to the Archbishop of Canterbury’.
- They are worshipers of the culture of death, whose goal is one thing: to convert the world to their religion, thereby making everyone in the world subservient to them, to their ideals, to their power.
- Few things are harder for people who were traditionally subservient to their ‘elders and betters’ than publicly dissenting and struggling for rights.
- If nothing else, this administration provides some space for the emergence of a post-civil rights black leadership not subservient to the Democratic Party.
- What this means is that Legco, which has little political power to begin with, is controlled by conservative forces subservient to Beijing and the Hong Kong government.
- By handling this case involving a head of state, the Korean judiciary will become either truly independent from political pressure or subservient to its power.
- She said: ‘We are determined to reach our goal - to empower women to live their own lives and not be subservient to their husbands.’
- Representatives who have been so nominated by their leaders, once elected to office as parliamentarians and councillors, become subservient to these leaders.
- Time after time they referred to his conflict of interest he owns most of Italy's commercial televisions stations and accused him of trying to make Europe subservient to the US.
- Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and subservient to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students?
- When Kennedy ran for president in 1960 he went to great lengths to deny that his religious beliefs would make him subservient to the Catholic church and not the U.S. constitution.
Synonyms
submissive, deferential, acquiescent, compliant, accommodating, obedient, dutiful, duteous, biddable, yielding, meek, docile, ductile, pliant, passive, unassertive, spiritless, subdued, humble, timid, mild, lamblike
servile, slavish, grovelling, truckling, self-effacing, self-abasing, downtrodden, snivelling, cowering, cringing
informal under someone's thumb
archaic resistless
rare longanimous
1. 1.1 Less important; subordinate.
  次要的；附属的，从属的
  he expected her career to become subservient to his
  Example sentencesExamples
  The increasing economic value of education is good news in a society that strives to make economic opportunity subservient to individual merit, rather than family background.
  While accountants take confidentiality seriously, as a core value it is subservient to their attestation role.
  Naturally, the role of the adaptive arm was initially subservient to the defensive functions of the pre-existing innate arm.
  This is an insider economy, where the entire economy is subservient to the interests of a chosen few and their cronies.
  There is a need to look within because, in countries across the world, religion has become subservient to local tradition and women have been victimised in a patriarchal society.
  In all these writers, the narrative self plays a subservient role to the voices of others; the self is rarely placed in a consistent dominating position over others.
  In their case everything is subservient to the economy.
  Pedagogical freedom is not an absolute; it is instrumental and subservient to the university's overarching interest in promoting free inquiry and debate.
  Even in the United States, where the private media are almost invariably subservient to corporate interests, journalists generally do not cite polls by pollsters who have publicly partisan connections.
  In other words, democracy must be subservient to economic growth, and unchecked government power is good for us.
  It is often the case in arts writing that it is seen as subservient to the art, that it's role can only be one of an obvious and didactic explicator of hidden meanings or that it should act as an interpreter of the artist's intentions.
  Again, not much of a case here, because company agendas of cost-cutting, profit-chasing and shareholder value are not subservient to retaining skilled and committed workforces.
  All they want to hear is that the arts are efficiently run, good for the economy and subservient to current dogmas of inclusivism and education.
  There is good reason for this: Marx elucidated a theory of labor in which workers become subservient to the objects they produce, a theory where people are not exalted by their labor, but devalued by it.
  It is very important to remember that the ornament is subservient to the garden and not the other way around.
  This case, the idea that the United States judicial system would be subservient or subordinate to an International Court of Justice, or the world court, is mined-boggling.
  Amidst this, the economic policies of any one government will always be subservient to its quest to secure the external and internal sovereignty of the state.
  We can ‘speak’ health and wealth into being because ‘the material world is subservient to the spiritual one’.
  The piano does play a more subservient role in the Rachmaninoff, as the cello carries the bulk of the melodic development, but Kay provides solid support throughout.
  Pearson spoke about how working women carry the puzzle of family life in their heads, their list of never-ending tasks and how their modest desire for time to themselves becomes subservient to everyone else's needs.
  Synonyms
  subordinate, secondary, subsidiary, peripheral, marginal, ancillary, auxiliary, supplementary, inferior, immaterial
  less important than, of lesser importance than, lower than
2. 1.2 Serving as a means to an end.
  为达到目的的
  the whole narration is subservient to the moral plan of exemplifying twelve virtues in twelve knights
  整个叙述都是为了实现道德教育的计划，即阐明体现在12位骑士身上的12种美德。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The way the Secretary of State is conducting his foreign policy, there is no doubt left that all the policy decisions are right now subservient to the need of capturing the terrorist.
  For much of the twentieth century, mandarins of the law viewed the courts as agents of social change and the law as contingent, evolutionary, and ultimately subservient to political expediency.
  Synonyms
  ancillary, subordinate, secondary, supportive
  instrumental, contributory, conducive, helpful, useful, advantageous, beneficial, valuable

Derivatives

subserviently

adverb səbˈsəːvɪəntlisəbˈsərviəntli

Bryan stepped in, bowed subserviently to Jason (also his employer) and left the tray he held on the small circular table I knelt next to.
Example sentencesExamples
- Contrary to their high-handedness and overbearing behavior in handling cases involving powerless citizens, they subserviently knelt to pressure from the power elite, specifically influential figures in the ruling camp.
- Tokkie, while subserviently knowing his place, worries for his job, his family and his future.
- She is a blank cheque… when she marries she brings in dowry, and then she starts her life subserviently under the watchful eyes of the mother-in-law.
- Others ‘play’ the leader's role by paying tremendous attention to what the leader does and by acting subserviently toward that person.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin subservient- 'subjecting to, complying with', from the verb subservire (see subserve).

Definition of subservient in US English:

subservient

adjectivesəbˈsərviəntsəbˈsərvēənt

1Prepared to obey others unquestioningly.
无条件顺从的
she was subservient to her parents
她对父母百依百顺。
Example sentencesExamples
- When Kennedy ran for president in 1960 he went to great lengths to deny that his religious beliefs would make him subservient to the Catholic church and not the U.S. constitution.
- She said: ‘We are determined to reach our goal - to empower women to live their own lives and not be subservient to their husbands.’
- Few things are harder for people who were traditionally subservient to their ‘elders and betters’ than publicly dissenting and struggling for rights.
- Meanwhile, Richard explained, ‘the archbishops of York didn't want to be subservient to the Archbishop of Canterbury’.
- They are worshipers of the culture of death, whose goal is one thing: to convert the world to their religion, thereby making everyone in the world subservient to them, to their ideals, to their power.
- The UK government should not become subservient to an all-powerful Frankfurt, just like local government has little power in the UK at the moment.
- A court could likewise restrict a father's teaching his children that women must be subservient to men, since such speech might undermine the mother's authority.
- Time after time they referred to his conflict of interest he owns most of Italy's commercial televisions stations and accused him of trying to make Europe subservient to the US.
- By handling this case involving a head of state, the Korean judiciary will become either truly independent from political pressure or subservient to its power.
- If nothing else, this administration provides some space for the emergence of a post-civil rights black leadership not subservient to the Democratic Party.
- The unit's public affairs officers are subservient to the information operations experts, military and defense officials said.
- The village lad they ‘employ’ is very much subservient to his ‘employers’.
- Nigerian women are very subservient to their men, so the project encourages personal development so that the women can become more assertive in deciding on a better life for themselves and their families.
- Representatives who have been so nominated by their leaders, once elected to office as parliamentarians and councillors, become subservient to these leaders.
- She is meek and subservient to the needs of her God.
- He is a hardcore Libertarian who wishes nothing more than to reduce the working class to an endentured slave class, subservient to the will of Corporate Fascism.
- A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is subservient to the husband.
- Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and subservient to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students?
- What this means is that Legco, which has little political power to begin with, is controlled by conservative forces subservient to Beijing and the Hong Kong government.
- Once defeated, the Zulu king became subservient to British rule and lost control over the trade in the kingdom, including the trade in beads.
Synonyms
submissive, deferential, acquiescent, compliant, accommodating, obedient, dutiful, duteous, biddable, yielding, meek, docile, ductile, pliant, passive, unassertive, spiritless, subdued, humble, timid, mild, lamblike
1. 1.1 Less important; subordinate.
  次要的；附属的，从属的
  he expected her career to become subservient to his
  Example sentencesExamples
  Again, not much of a case here, because company agendas of cost-cutting, profit-chasing and shareholder value are not subservient to retaining skilled and committed workforces.
  There is a need to look within because, in countries across the world, religion has become subservient to local tradition and women have been victimised in a patriarchal society.
  There is good reason for this: Marx elucidated a theory of labor in which workers become subservient to the objects they produce, a theory where people are not exalted by their labor, but devalued by it.
  In other words, democracy must be subservient to economic growth, and unchecked government power is good for us.
  The piano does play a more subservient role in the Rachmaninoff, as the cello carries the bulk of the melodic development, but Kay provides solid support throughout.
  In their case everything is subservient to the economy.
  Naturally, the role of the adaptive arm was initially subservient to the defensive functions of the pre-existing innate arm.
  While accountants take confidentiality seriously, as a core value it is subservient to their attestation role.
  Pedagogical freedom is not an absolute; it is instrumental and subservient to the university's overarching interest in promoting free inquiry and debate.
  In all these writers, the narrative self plays a subservient role to the voices of others; the self is rarely placed in a consistent dominating position over others.
  This case, the idea that the United States judicial system would be subservient or subordinate to an International Court of Justice, or the world court, is mined-boggling.
  Even in the United States, where the private media are almost invariably subservient to corporate interests, journalists generally do not cite polls by pollsters who have publicly partisan connections.
  The increasing economic value of education is good news in a society that strives to make economic opportunity subservient to individual merit, rather than family background.
  All they want to hear is that the arts are efficiently run, good for the economy and subservient to current dogmas of inclusivism and education.
  It is often the case in arts writing that it is seen as subservient to the art, that it's role can only be one of an obvious and didactic explicator of hidden meanings or that it should act as an interpreter of the artist's intentions.
  This is an insider economy, where the entire economy is subservient to the interests of a chosen few and their cronies.
  It is very important to remember that the ornament is subservient to the garden and not the other way around.
  Amidst this, the economic policies of any one government will always be subservient to its quest to secure the external and internal sovereignty of the state.
  We can ‘speak’ health and wealth into being because ‘the material world is subservient to the spiritual one’.
  Pearson spoke about how working women carry the puzzle of family life in their heads, their list of never-ending tasks and how their modest desire for time to themselves becomes subservient to everyone else's needs.
  Synonyms
  subordinate, secondary, subsidiary, peripheral, marginal, ancillary, auxiliary, supplementary, inferior, immaterial
2. 1.2 Serving as a means to an end.
  为达到目的的
  the whole narration is subservient to the moral plan of exemplifying twelve virtues in twelve knights
  整个叙述都是为了实现道德教育的计划，即阐明体现在12位骑士身上的12种美德。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The way the Secretary of State is conducting his foreign policy, there is no doubt left that all the policy decisions are right now subservient to the need of capturing the terrorist.
  For much of the twentieth century, mandarins of the law viewed the courts as agents of social change and the law as contingent, evolutionary, and ultimately subservient to political expediency.
  Synonyms
  ancillary, subordinate, secondary, supportive

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin subservient- ‘subjecting to, complying with’, from the verb subservire (see subserve).

词汇	subservient
释义	Definition of subservient in English: subservient adjective səbˈsəːvɪəntsəbˈsərviənt 1Prepared to obey others unquestioningly. 无条件顺从的 she was subservient to her parents 她对父母百依百顺。 Example sentencesExamples A court could likewise restrict a father's teaching his children that women must be subservient to men, since such speech might undermine the mother's authority. Nigerian women are very subservient to their men, so the project encourages personal development so that the women can become more assertive in deciding on a better life for themselves and their families. A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is subservient to the husband. She is meek and subservient to the needs of her God. The unit's public affairs officers are subservient to the information operations experts, military and defense officials said. The village lad they ‘employ’ is very much subservient to his ‘employers’. The UK government should not become subservient to an all-powerful Frankfurt, just like local government has little power in the UK at the moment. He is a hardcore Libertarian who wishes nothing more than to reduce the working class to an endentured slave class, subservient to the will of Corporate Fascism. Once defeated, the Zulu king became subservient to British rule and lost control over the trade in the kingdom, including the trade in beads. Meanwhile, Richard explained, ‘the archbishops of York didn't want to be subservient to the Archbishop of Canterbury’. They are worshipers of the culture of death, whose goal is one thing: to convert the world to their religion, thereby making everyone in the world subservient to them, to their ideals, to their power. Few things are harder for people who were traditionally subservient to their ‘elders and betters’ than publicly dissenting and struggling for rights. If nothing else, this administration provides some space for the emergence of a post-civil rights black leadership not subservient to the Democratic Party. What this means is that Legco, which has little political power to begin with, is controlled by conservative forces subservient to Beijing and the Hong Kong government. By handling this case involving a head of state, the Korean judiciary will become either truly independent from political pressure or subservient to its power. She said: ‘We are determined to reach our goal - to empower women to live their own lives and not be subservient to their husbands.’ Representatives who have been so nominated by their leaders, once elected to office as parliamentarians and councillors, become subservient to these leaders. Time after time they referred to his conflict of interest he owns most of Italy's commercial televisions stations and accused him of trying to make Europe subservient to the US. Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and subservient to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students? When Kennedy ran for president in 1960 he went to great lengths to deny that his religious beliefs would make him subservient to the Catholic church and not the U.S. constitution. Synonyms submissive, deferential, acquiescent, compliant, accommodating, obedient, dutiful, duteous, biddable, yielding, meek, docile, ductile, pliant, passive, unassertive, spiritless, subdued, humble, timid, mild, lamblike servile, slavish, grovelling, truckling, self-effacing, self-abasing, downtrodden, snivelling, cowering, cringing informal under someone's thumb archaic resistless rare longanimous 1.1 Less important; subordinate. 次要的；附属的，从属的 he expected her career to become subservient to his Example sentencesExamples The increasing economic value of education is good news in a society that strives to make economic opportunity subservient to individual merit, rather than family background. While accountants take confidentiality seriously, as a core value it is subservient to their attestation role. Naturally, the role of the adaptive arm was initially subservient to the defensive functions of the pre-existing innate arm. This is an insider economy, where the entire economy is subservient to the interests of a chosen few and their cronies. There is a need to look within because, in countries across the world, religion has become subservient to local tradition and women have been victimised in a patriarchal society. In all these writers, the narrative self plays a subservient role to the voices of others; the self is rarely placed in a consistent dominating position over others. In their case everything is subservient to the economy. Pedagogical freedom is not an absolute; it is instrumental and subservient to the university's overarching interest in promoting free inquiry and debate. Even in the United States, where the private media are almost invariably subservient to corporate interests, journalists generally do not cite polls by pollsters who have publicly partisan connections. In other words, democracy must be subservient to economic growth, and unchecked government power is good for us. It is often the case in arts writing that it is seen as subservient to the art, that it's role can only be one of an obvious and didactic explicator of hidden meanings or that it should act as an interpreter of the artist's intentions. Again, not much of a case here, because company agendas of cost-cutting, profit-chasing and shareholder value are not subservient to retaining skilled and committed workforces. All they want to hear is that the arts are efficiently run, good for the economy and subservient to current dogmas of inclusivism and education. There is good reason for this: Marx elucidated a theory of labor in which workers become subservient to the objects they produce, a theory where people are not exalted by their labor, but devalued by it. It is very important to remember that the ornament is subservient to the garden and not the other way around. This case, the idea that the United States judicial system would be subservient or subordinate to an International Court of Justice, or the world court, is mined-boggling. Amidst this, the economic policies of any one government will always be subservient to its quest to secure the external and internal sovereignty of the state. We can ‘speak’ health and wealth into being because ‘the material world is subservient to the spiritual one’. The piano does play a more subservient role in the Rachmaninoff, as the cello carries the bulk of the melodic development, but Kay provides solid support throughout. Pearson spoke about how working women carry the puzzle of family life in their heads, their list of never-ending tasks and how their modest desire for time to themselves becomes subservient to everyone else's needs. Synonyms subordinate, secondary, subsidiary, peripheral, marginal, ancillary, auxiliary, supplementary, inferior, immaterial less important than, of lesser importance than, lower than 1.2 Serving as a means to an end. 为达到目的的 the whole narration is subservient to the moral plan of exemplifying twelve virtues in twelve knights 整个叙述都是为了实现道德教育的计划，即阐明体现在12位骑士身上的12种美德。 Example sentencesExamples The way the Secretary of State is conducting his foreign policy, there is no doubt left that all the policy decisions are right now subservient to the need of capturing the terrorist. For much of the twentieth century, mandarins of the law viewed the courts as agents of social change and the law as contingent, evolutionary, and ultimately subservient to political expediency. Synonyms ancillary, subordinate, secondary, supportive instrumental, contributory, conducive, helpful, useful, advantageous, beneficial, valuable Derivatives subserviently adverb səbˈsəːvɪəntlisəbˈsərviəntli Bryan stepped in, bowed subserviently to Jason (also his employer) and left the tray he held on the small circular table I knelt next to. Example sentencesExamples Contrary to their high-handedness and overbearing behavior in handling cases involving powerless citizens, they subserviently knelt to pressure from the power elite, specifically influential figures in the ruling camp. Tokkie, while subserviently knowing his place, worries for his job, his family and his future. She is a blank cheque… when she marries she brings in dowry, and then she starts her life subserviently under the watchful eyes of the mother-in-law. Others ‘play’ the leader's role by paying tremendous attention to what the leader does and by acting subserviently toward that person. Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin subservient- 'subjecting to, complying with', from the verb subservire (see subserve). Definition of subservient in US English: subservient adjectivesəbˈsərviəntsəbˈsərvēənt 1Prepared to obey others unquestioningly. 无条件顺从的 she was subservient to her parents 她对父母百依百顺。 Example sentencesExamples When Kennedy ran for president in 1960 he went to great lengths to deny that his religious beliefs would make him subservient to the Catholic church and not the U.S. constitution. She said: ‘We are determined to reach our goal - to empower women to live their own lives and not be subservient to their husbands.’ Few things are harder for people who were traditionally subservient to their ‘elders and betters’ than publicly dissenting and struggling for rights. Meanwhile, Richard explained, ‘the archbishops of York didn't want to be subservient to the Archbishop of Canterbury’. They are worshipers of the culture of death, whose goal is one thing: to convert the world to their religion, thereby making everyone in the world subservient to them, to their ideals, to their power. The UK government should not become subservient to an all-powerful Frankfurt, just like local government has little power in the UK at the moment. A court could likewise restrict a father's teaching his children that women must be subservient to men, since such speech might undermine the mother's authority. Time after time they referred to his conflict of interest he owns most of Italy's commercial televisions stations and accused him of trying to make Europe subservient to the US. By handling this case involving a head of state, the Korean judiciary will become either truly independent from political pressure or subservient to its power. If nothing else, this administration provides some space for the emergence of a post-civil rights black leadership not subservient to the Democratic Party. The unit's public affairs officers are subservient to the information operations experts, military and defense officials said. The village lad they ‘employ’ is very much subservient to his ‘employers’. Nigerian women are very subservient to their men, so the project encourages personal development so that the women can become more assertive in deciding on a better life for themselves and their families. Representatives who have been so nominated by their leaders, once elected to office as parliamentarians and councillors, become subservient to these leaders. She is meek and subservient to the needs of her God. He is a hardcore Libertarian who wishes nothing more than to reduce the working class to an endentured slave class, subservient to the will of Corporate Fascism. A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is subservient to the husband. Was there some hidden agenda to keep all us colonial subjects docile and subservient to the Great Empire by brainwashing our smarter students? What this means is that Legco, which has little political power to begin with, is controlled by conservative forces subservient to Beijing and the Hong Kong government. Once defeated, the Zulu king became subservient to British rule and lost control over the trade in the kingdom, including the trade in beads. Synonyms submissive, deferential, acquiescent, compliant, accommodating, obedient, dutiful, duteous, biddable, yielding, meek, docile, ductile, pliant, passive, unassertive, spiritless, subdued, humble, timid, mild, lamblike 1.1 Less important; subordinate. 次要的；附属的，从属的 he expected her career to become subservient to his Example sentencesExamples Again, not much of a case here, because company agendas of cost-cutting, profit-chasing and shareholder value are not subservient to retaining skilled and committed workforces. There is a need to look within because, in countries across the world, religion has become subservient to local tradition and women have been victimised in a patriarchal society. There is good reason for this: Marx elucidated a theory of labor in which workers become subservient to the objects they produce, a theory where people are not exalted by their labor, but devalued by it. In other words, democracy must be subservient to economic growth, and unchecked government power is good for us. The piano does play a more subservient role in the Rachmaninoff, as the cello carries the bulk of the melodic development, but Kay provides solid support throughout. In their case everything is subservient to the economy. Naturally, the role of the adaptive arm was initially subservient to the defensive functions of the pre-existing innate arm. While accountants take confidentiality seriously, as a core value it is subservient to their attestation role. Pedagogical freedom is not an absolute; it is instrumental and subservient to the university's overarching interest in promoting free inquiry and debate. In all these writers, the narrative self plays a subservient role to the voices of others; the self is rarely placed in a consistent dominating position over others. This case, the idea that the United States judicial system would be subservient or subordinate to an International Court of Justice, or the world court, is mined-boggling. Even in the United States, where the private media are almost invariably subservient to corporate interests, journalists generally do not cite polls by pollsters who have publicly partisan connections. The increasing economic value of education is good news in a society that strives to make economic opportunity subservient to individual merit, rather than family background. All they want to hear is that the arts are efficiently run, good for the economy and subservient to current dogmas of inclusivism and education. It is often the case in arts writing that it is seen as subservient to the art, that it's role can only be one of an obvious and didactic explicator of hidden meanings or that it should act as an interpreter of the artist's intentions. This is an insider economy, where the entire economy is subservient to the interests of a chosen few and their cronies. It is very important to remember that the ornament is subservient to the garden and not the other way around. Amidst this, the economic policies of any one government will always be subservient to its quest to secure the external and internal sovereignty of the state. We can ‘speak’ health and wealth into being because ‘the material world is subservient to the spiritual one’. Pearson spoke about how working women carry the puzzle of family life in their heads, their list of never-ending tasks and how their modest desire for time to themselves becomes subservient to everyone else's needs. Synonyms subordinate, secondary, subsidiary, peripheral, marginal, ancillary, auxiliary, supplementary, inferior, immaterial 1.2 Serving as a means to an end. 为达到目的的 the whole narration is subservient to the moral plan of exemplifying twelve virtues in twelve knights 整个叙述都是为了实现道德教育的计划，即阐明体现在12位骑士身上的12种美德。 Example sentencesExamples The way the Secretary of State is conducting his foreign policy, there is no doubt left that all the policy decisions are right now subservient to the need of capturing the terrorist. For much of the twentieth century, mandarins of the law viewed the courts as agents of social change and the law as contingent, evolutionary, and ultimately subservient to political expediency. Synonyms ancillary, subordinate, secondary, supportive Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin subservient- ‘subjecting to, complying with’, from the verb subservire (see subserve).
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