time-serving

alternative timeserving

1. uncountableOpportunism.
2. uncountablecomputingThe functionality of a timeserver.

comparative more time-serving · superlative most time-serving · alternative timeserving

1. Opportunistic; conforming to the status quo in order to serve one's own interests.

   Harding brought with him a timeserving pal from The Times called Keith Blackmore, who was equally a stranger to broadcasting.

   2016 November, Jonathan Meades, “Inside Job”, in Literary Review

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   And the man who had just been engaged in the most time-serving neglect of former, and a most cringing anticipation of new patrons, became forthwith the kind and hospitable host of strangers who had no claim upon him beyond their own isolated situation.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 85