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noun Law.

a person who serves legal documents, as subpoenas, writs, or warrants, especially those requiring appearance in court.

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Origin of process server

First recorded in 1605–15

Words nearby process server

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How to use process server in a sentence

Sepulveda was informed that the royal’s security staff weren’t permitted to allow process servers onto the grounds and were “told not to accept service,” the affidavit says.
Prince Andrew Was Already Served Papers in Epstein Case and Just Won’t Accept It, Victim Says|Kate Briquelet|September 10, 2021|The Daily Beast
According to an affidavit of the process server, Cesar Augusto Sepulveda, royal security initially declined to accept Giuffre’s lawsuit in late August.
Prince Andrew Was Already Served Papers in Epstein Case and Just Won’t Accept It, Victim Says|Kate Briquelet|September 10, 2021|The Daily Beast
In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Or how much richer a few rich Mexicans are going to get in the process?
Why Mexicans Are Enraged by Obama’s Big Tuesday Meeting|Ruben Navarrette Jr.|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.
How to Solve the Policing Crisis|Keli Goff|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“The process of getting the approval is too slow and is too cumbersome,” Rogers said.
ISIS Fight Has a Spy Shortage, Intel Chair Says|Kimberly Dozier|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
The Cultural Crimes of Iggy Azalea|Amy Zimmerman|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
That, too, is a process which in this changing new world of ours can never be completed.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A smile of beatitude spread over his enormous countenance during the process.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills

British Dictionary definitions for process server

process-server

noun

a sheriff's officer who serves legal documents such as writs for appearance in court

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