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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Subordinate in capacity or function.
  2. adj. Obsequious; servile.
  3. adj. Useful as a means or an instrument; serving to promote an end.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Useful as an instrument or means to promote an end or purpose; serviceable; being of service.
  2. Acting as a subordinate instrument; fitted or disposed to serve in an inferior capacity; subordinate; hence, of persons and conduct, truckling; obsequious.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Useful in an inferior capacity.
  2. adj. Obsequiously submissive.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
  2. adj. serving or acting as a means or aid
  3. adj. compliant and obedient to authority

Etymologies

  1. Latin subserviēns, subservient-, present participle of subservīre, to subserve; see subserve. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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