outserve
verbEtymology From out- + serve.
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To serve more or better than.
- Even the National Provincial Bank, the Company's bankers, believed that he had outserved his time.2006, William Roger Louis, Ends of British imperialism, page 763:
- Because if Venus wants it, you can’t outhit her, you can’t outserve her, and she and Serena, when they return serves, it’s just unbelievable.2007 July 5, John Branch, “Venus Ousts Sharapova; Serena Falls to Henin”, in New York Times: