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  process server

  noun

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

  noun

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

process server

American  

noun

Law.

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

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process-server British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of process server

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

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He once got so aggressive trying to escape a subpoena that the process server described him dashing to a car and peeling away.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2023

At that point, the process server later recounted, Mr. Paxton ran from the garage, climbed into the truck, and the couple disappeared down the street, leaving him to deposit the subpoena on the ground.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

A process server wrote in an affidavit that he was attempting to deliver the federal court subpoena Monday at Paxton’s home and ultimately had to leave the document on the ground.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

Nor did he want the process server to approach her at their children’s school with other parents in the vicinity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

This venerable ancestor was, I have been told, a process server in one of the poorest parishes of the Rouergue.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

“The out-of-pocket court costs of a New York eviction are relatively modest: typically a filing fee, process-server fees, and the sheriff’s or marshal’s fee for the lockout,” Sirianni says.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server.

From Time Magazine Archive

A process-server walked in and handed Vaucross the papers at his table.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry

However, the family remains, and no process-server would show his face at the rebuilt house for fifty pounds.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker

Fees and costs will have their cravings; and from the process-server to the Hangman all will have their due.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala