as in waiters
a person who serves food or drink
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Vulnerability reports for both POP3 email servers and IMAP email hosts can be found on the Shadowserver Foundation site.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Organizations pour billions into vulnerability scanners and management tools to identify weak spots across their systems—from servers and cloud infrastructure to applications and endpoints.
—Oren Koren, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Walker said the street’s closure has hurt bartenders and other servers who depend heavily on tourist tips.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
For instance, a virtual private network (VPN) can effectively encrypt data transmitted between the team and enterprise servers.
—Allbusiness, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Each offers premium tables with bottle service and model-worthy servers.
—Rob Reed, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Your device privately matches places in your photos to a global index Apple maintains on our servers.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
With 80% of global internet traffic flowing through servers in Northern Virginia, even brief disruptions would create billions in economic damage.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
His companies continued to hire H-2 workers during his first presidential term, posting applications for visas for 78 housekeepers, cooks and food servers at Mar-a-Lago in mid-2018, for example.
—Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Organizations pour billions into vulnerability scanners and management tools to identify weak spots across their systems—from servers and cloud infrastructure to applications and endpoints.
—Oren Koren, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Walker said the street’s closure has hurt bartenders and other servers who depend heavily on tourist tips.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
For instance, a virtual private network (VPN) can effectively encrypt data transmitted between the team and enterprise servers.
—Allbusiness, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Each offers premium tables with bottle service and model-worthy servers.
—Rob Reed, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Your device privately matches places in your photos to a global index Apple maintains on our servers.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
With 80% of global internet traffic flowing through servers in Northern Virginia, even brief disruptions would create billions in economic damage.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
His companies continued to hire H-2 workers during his first presidential term, posting applications for visas for 78 housekeepers, cooks and food servers at Mar-a-Lago in mid-2018, for example.
—Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Servers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servers. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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