Synonyms

retainer

Used in print

`` These actions should serve to protect in_fact and in_effect the court 's wards from undue costs and its appointed and elected servants from unmeritorious criticisms '' , the jury said .

But it had , as was usual in southern cities of this sort , a Black_Bottom , a low region near the river where the Negroes lived - servants and laborers huddled_together in a region with no sewage save the river , where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime .

All_of the jobs in the mission might be equal in the eyes of the Lord , but they were certainly not equal in the eyes of the Lord 's servants .

Related terms

worker body_servant lackey manservant major-domo factotum domestic familiar menial scullion cabin_boy servant_girl serve

Synonyms

handmaiden handmaid

Examples

"theology should be the handmaiden of ethics" "the state cannot be a servant of the church"

Related terms

subordinateness serve