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  1. serve one's time: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. serve one's time: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (serve one's time)

verb:  To hold a professional, political, etc. position for a set period of time.
verb:  Alternative form of serve time (“serve a jail sentence”) [(idiomatic) To be confined in prison or a similar institution, typically for wrongdoing that violates the law.]


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