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server

US /ˈsɝvɚ/

noun Target · B2 Công nghệ & kỹ thuật

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

NounNoun
server gốc serving
VerbVerb
AdjectiveAdj
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AdverbAdv
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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 server
    describing friendly restaurant server (troops belonging to or allied with your own military forces)
  • Medium backup data on the corporate file server
    describing backup data on the corporate file server (an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage)
  • Hard deploy high-availability cloud server clusters
    to deploy high-availability cloud server clusters, meaning to place troops or weapons in battle formation
  • Very Hard mitigate distributed server denial of service onslaughts
    to mitigate distributed server denial of service onslaughts, meaning to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

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