as in waiter
a person who serves food or drink
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Recent Examples of server
In the meantime, some of the attention has turned to tech companies, such as Apple, Google and Oracle, who currently offer TikTok on their app stores or host company data on their servers.
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Haleluya Hadero, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
Two of the site’s servers were seized in Germany, bank accounts were frozen in several European countries, and police seized 5 million euros.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
And those numbers, those servers, these IP addresses are reused by lots of services.
—Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 8 Jan. 2025
Would the intelligence fill up whatever computer servers were accessible and stop expanding at that point?
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Haleluya Hadero, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
Two of the site’s servers were seized in Germany, bank accounts were frozen in several European countries, and police seized 5 million euros.
—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
And those numbers, those servers, these IP addresses are reused by lots of services.
—Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 8 Jan. 2025
Would the intelligence fill up whatever computer servers were accessible and stop expanding at that point?
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for server
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“Server.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/server. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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