0 to give someone food or drink, especially in a restaurant or bar -- servir (comida o bebida)
Are you still serving?
1 to help customers and sell things to them in a shop -- atender
Are you being served?
2 to do work that helps society -- servir
to serve in the army
3 to be useful as something -- servir de algo
4 to be in prison for a period of time -- cumplir (una sentencia)
5 to give sb food or drink -- servir
Could you serve the drinks to the guests? ¿Podrías servir las bebidas a los invitados?
the waiter who served us in the restaurant el camarero que nos sirvió en el restaurante
Unfortunately, he must serve another six months of a one-year sentence.
The experience of delinquents who instead of serving out their time are forced to kick their habit tells a different story.
Those will really facilitate our work and serve our common objective.
Few measures that can be taken against an individual are as far-reaching in their effects as legal proceedings or the requirement to serve a sentence.
They have served to underscore the importance of looking at the whole issue of how we manage migration and refugee flows.
This proposal serves the interests of the wheat trading and processing industries by ensuring they have cheap raw materials.
We must now ensure that those who served the sugar industry loyally for many years receive equitable compensation.
What purpose, then, is served by debates in committee?
