'Timeserving' definitions:
Definition of 'timeserving'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit [syn: opportunist, opportunistic, timeserving]
Definition of 'Timeserving'
From: GCIDE
- Timeserving \Time"serv`ing\, n. An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Temporizing.
- Usage: Timeserving, Temporizing. Both these words are applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action which might injure him with others. The former is dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are contemptible. [1913 Webster]
- Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion. --South. [1913 Webster]
- [I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Timeserving'
From: GCIDE
- Timeserving \Time"serv`ing\, a. Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power. [1913 Webster]