re-serve

verb

To deliver a document again.

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Meanings

verbre-serve (third-person singular simple present re-serves, present participle re-serving, simple past and past participle re-served)

present singular third person re-serves · participle present re-serving · participle past re-served · past re-served

  1. transitivelawTo deliver a document again.

    Where the Department of Homeland Security seeks to re-serve a respondent to effect proper service of a notice to appear that was defective under the regulatory requirements for serving minors under the age of 14, a continuance should be granted for that purpose.

    2016 December 16, Anne J. Greer, Matter of W-A-F-C-, Respondent, Board of Immigration Appeals, 26 I&N Dec. 880 (BIA 2016), archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021, page 880
Cite this entry
APA

re-serve. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-serve

MLA

“re-serve.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-serve. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “re-serve,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/re-serve.

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