process server
noun
a person who serves legal documents, as subpoenas, writs, or warrants, especially those requiring appearance in court.
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process-servernouna sheriff's officer who serves legal documents such as writs for appearance in court
process server
Americannoun
Law.
process-server
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of process server
First recorded in 1605–15
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During the second attempt, the process server allegedly spotted four vehicles parked in the driveway, but no one answered the door.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
The other process server ran and sought help, court records said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
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
And in late May, after months of failed attempts, a process server delivered court papers to Shaquille O’Neal, the retired basketball star, who was sued for promoting FTX, according to legal filings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
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
The first object looked for will be Robespierre's birthplace, an eminently respectable middle-class abode, now occupied by a personage almost as generally distasteful as that of the Conventionnel himself, namely, a process-server or bailiff.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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
The lady was the daughter of a client of the firm for which Oliver Cromwell was a process-server.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard
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