Usually means: Perform duties for another person.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. serve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. serve: Merriam-Webster
  3. serve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. serve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. serve: Collins English Dictionary
  6. serve: Vocabulary.com
  7. Serve, serve: Wordnik
  8. serve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. serve: Wiktionary
  10. serve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. serve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. serve: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. serve: Dictionary.com
  14. serve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. serve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Serve (tennis), Serve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Serve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. serve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. serve: Rhymezone
  20. serve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. serve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SERVE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Serve: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. serve: FreeDictionary.org
  25. serve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. serve: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. serve: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. serve: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. serve: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. serve: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. serve: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. serve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. serve: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SERVE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. serve: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. serve, serve: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Serve: Tennis Glossary
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  5. Serve: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
noun:  (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
noun:  (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
verb:  (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
verb:  (transitive) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
verb:  (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
verb:  (transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
verb:  (intransitive, factive) To render service by being a servant, worker, employee, or officeholder; to hold those roles and perform their duties.
verb:  (transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
verb:  To be effective.
verb:  (transitive) To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
verb:  (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
verb:  (transitive, law) To deliver a document in such a way that the recipient can be legally considered to be informed of it.
verb:  To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
verb:  To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
verb:  (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
verb:  (intransitive) To be in military service.
verb:  (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
verb:  (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
verb:  (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
verb:  (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
verb:  (ambitransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
verb:  (LGBTQ slang and African-American Vernacular) To present an attractive personal appearance.
verb:  (intransitive) To present an attractive personal appearance.
verb:  (transitive) To attractively display (something, especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
verb:  (transitive) To evoke (something, especially a person) with one's personal appearance.

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