Collocations for "served"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "served" in context.
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serve
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- serve [dinner, lunch]
- the [waiter, host] served [us, the food]
- were served by the [waiter]
- serve it over [rice, ice, pasta]
- serve as the [appetizer, main course, dessert]
- serve your [customers, clients]
- serve the [public, community]
- serve the [needs, interests] of
- serves a purpose
- serve you [better, more efficiently]
- serve and [protect, provide, support]
- serve time [in prison, for murder]
- serve [five years] [at, in]
- serve your sentence
- serve in [the military, Vietnam]
- serve in office
- serve as [president, secretary]
- sports: served [the ball, an ace]
- serves to [highlight, outline, reinforce, strengthen, make, increase]
- serves you right
- a [tennis, squash, volleyball] serve
- his [first, second] serve
- a [good, poor, fast, slow] serve
- a serve in [tennis]
- a [100, 140] -mph serve
- the player [broke, held, aced] his serve
- returned the serve
- [hit, smashed] the serve into the net
- the serve [was, went] [wide, long]
- the serve was [challenged, out]
- whose serve is it?
'served' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Ministry
- ace
- advisor
- aid
- alternate
- always
- apprenticeship
- apricot
- assistant
- bar
- booster
- bowl
- bread
- breakfast
- butler
- catalyst
- complimentary
- decoy
- delicious
- determination
- dinner
- dip
- diversion
- eerie
- effectively
- enlist
- expectation
- fault
- filth
- first
- fried
- grunt
- haddock
- hitch
- humble
- illustrate
- instead
- internship
- jail
- ladle
- lady
- lean
- legal
- let
- loyalty
- lunch
- luscious
- madam
- military
- muddy