time-serving Definition på svenska

• 0 not working very hard at your job, because you are just waiting until you reach the age at which you can stop work: --

  • He is a corrupt, time-serving career man.

  • time-serving politicians

  • These time-serving workers are not delivering improved standards.

  • He's a time-serving drone who works for America's Internal Revenue Service.

• 1 someone who is time-serving works in a safe job and is doing as little as possible while waiting for the time that they can retire: --

  • Corrupt time-serving was common at lower levels of the state bureaucracy.

• 2 working in a safe job and doing as little as possible while waiting to retire: --

  • Committed, forward-looking professionals had the advantage over their time-serving colleagues.