timeserver

1. 1.

   one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage

   Broaderopportunist

Other forms of timeserver

plural

timeservers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about timeserver

What does timeserver mean?

timeserver means "one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage".

How many syllables are in timeserver?

timeserver has 4 syllables: ti-me-ser-ver. The stress falls on "me".

Is timeserver a common word?

timeserver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.