server
US /ˈsɝvɚ/
Definition
a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The technician restarted the server after the website stopped responding.
Word Family
Synonyms
- hosta person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
- waitera person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
- attendantsomeone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
Collocations
- Easy friendly restaurant serverdescribing friendly restaurant server (troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces)
- Medium backup data on the corporate file serverdescribing backup data on the corporate file server (an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage)
- Hard deploy high-availability cloud server clustersto deploy high-availability cloud server clusters, meaning to place troops or weapons in battle formation
- Very Hard mitigate distributed server denial of service onslaughtsto mitigate distributed server denial of service onslaughts, meaning to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
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