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To serve is to perform a role or function. While your co-worker is out sick, you gladly serve as his replacement until he gets better. Serve comes from the Latin word for servant or slave, but you can serve people without being subordinate to them.
There is no specific sentencing option called "time served".
A serving is an amount of food that is given to one person at a meal. Quantities will vary according to how many servings of soup you want to prepare. Synonyms: portion, helping, ration, plateful More Synonyms of serving. 2. adjective ADJ n
Serve time Undergo a prison sentence; also, work at a particular task, especially an undesirable one. For example, We couldn't hire him when we learned that he had served time for robbery, or I applied for a transfer after serving time in that chaotic department. Late 1800s
You get your certificates for your qualifications but 'time served' means you have worked on the job learning and is shown on your work experience. Anyone can go and get qualifications from college but it's not the same as actually doing the job in question and having the experience from it.
The period a criminal defendant has been in jail, often while awaiting bail or awaiting trial. Often a judge will give a defendant "credit for time served," particularly when sentencing for misdemeanors.After lengthy waits in jail before trial, "time served" may become very important to the defendant.
Time served for state prison sentences: When a person is sentenced to state prison for a crime, they will receive one day credit for every one day served.So a person who is convicted of a violent felony crime as defined by the California penal code, will have to serve out 85% of their time.
Undergo a prison sentence; also, work at a particular task, especially an undesirable one. For example, We couldn't hire him when we learned that he had served time for robbery, or I applied for a transfer after serving time in that chaotic department. Late 1800s
At the time a criminal defendant is sentenced, the amount of time the defendant has already spent in jail awaiting trial or a plea of guilty. When a judge sentences a defendant to "time served," the sentence is the same as the time the defendant has spent in jail, and the defendant is set free.