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单词 to serve out one's time
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to serve out one's time
1. transitive. To complete the duration of (a term of service, an apprenticeship, a judicial sentence, etc.); to spend (a period) in a particular office, role or position, etc.; to pass (a period, one's life) in service or servitude. Esp. in to serve out one's time (cf. to serve (one's) time at Phrases 8).
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1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 390 That no prentice haue his fredom of Burgesshippe, but he serue out fulle vij. yere of prentishode.
?1535–6 T. Dorset Let. 13 Mar. in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 38 He said they shulde serve it out at cart then.
1553 R. Ascham Let. 24 Mar. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 16 Som reason I have, to be made free and jorneyman in lernyng, whan I have allready served out three prentyships at Cambrige.
1652 Perfect Diurnall No. 130. 1927 Apprentises..should serve out their Time in any of the three Nations, according to the conveniency of his Masters businesse.
1685 J. Dryden Albion & Albanius Pref. sig. (b)2 As if I had not serv'd out my time in Poetry, but was bound 'Prentice to some doggrel Rhymer.
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 110 Those who had served out their time [sc. as soldiers].
1780 G. Mason Let. 6 Oct. in T. Jefferson Papers (1951) IV. 18 Three or four Serjeants..had served out their Time in the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment.
1823 M. L. Bevan Let. 10 Mar. in Jrnl. 33rd House of Representatives Pennsylvania 771 No person..shall be sent to the prison of the city and county of Philadelphia, but shall serve out the time of their sentence in the gaol of the proper county.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 756/2 The obligation to return to a convict prison to serve out the unexpired term of penal servitude.
1923 Music Trades 6 Jan. 37/2 When a man serves out his time the instrument he played remains the property of the league.
1974 Ebony Dec. 179/3 He was taken immediately to Annandale Reformatory to serve out his old sentence.
2020 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 20 June 18 People are already talking about whether he will serve out the full term.
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