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serve notice en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. To officially give a legal notice to.
    • One who desires to assert his right to the possession of a horse by virtue of his lien must ascertain the real owner and serve notice on him. 1894, Leonard Augustus Jones, A Treatise on the Law of Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable and Maritime, →ISBN:
  2. To warn or announce.
    • Those same philosophy articles then immediately serve notice that, for simplicity, they will discuss only belief. 2000, Nalini Bhushan, Stuart Rosenfeld, Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry, →ISBN:
  3. (idiomatic) To fire; to terminate one's employment or formal association.
    • "One white man." said Bill, after a brief inspection. "Out on his line, I s'pose, and there's no tellin' when he'll be back. So we won't wait. We'll just serve notice on him." 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
serves notice Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
served notice Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
served notice Tense=Past lexicographic
serving notice Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

sack · let go · axe (terminate employment)

Translations (3)

fi varoittaa (warn or announce) · fi erottaa (terminate employment) · fi ilmoittaa (officially give a legal notice to)