server

noun

ˈsər-vər How to pronounce server (audio)
Definition of servernext
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 The researchers posted their results to the preprint server arXiv.org in February. — Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2025 They are not known to Enpass or stored on Enpass servers. — PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025 And a society that chooses to cool its servers while its citizens swelter—or freeze—has fundamentally misplaced its priorities. — Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 Earlier this month, Oracle alerted some health-care customers that sometime after Jan. 22, hackers accessed company servers and copied patient data to an outside location, according to the notification, which was seen by Bloomberg News. — Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 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 7 Apr. 2025.

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