subserve
verb (used with object)
to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.).
will subserve
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future tenseof subserve.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The writer who seeks merely to cater to current tastes with each tale will do well to devise fictions that will subserve his purpose naturally.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
Deeply intent upon defending and guarding his own interests, he regards all means as lawful that will subserve that end.
From The Way of Peace by James Allen
It is the tendency to consider the general good first, and to limit individual rights or introduce collective action wherever this will subserve the general good.
From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney
How well these advantages will subserve his progress, his interest—depend upon the confidence and faith which they will inspire in him toward himself.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
To quicken the intellect and imagination of Ireland, to co-ordinate our economic life for the general good, should be the objects of national policy, and will subserve the evolutionary purpose.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
