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Timeserving describes a person, or their behaviour, marked by doing the minimum and looking after their own comfort rather than the work — and, in its older and sharper use, by bending their opinions to please whoever holds power. A timeserving official, timeserving politicians, a timeserving attitude. It is a adjective and a formal, rather literary one; most speakers today would never use it out loud, and it appears mainly in written criticism of politicians, officials and institutions. The same form also works as a noun for the behaviour itself ('accused of timeserving'), though that is rarer. Note that although the dictionary line here points at the lazy-worker idea, the flavour in real texts is very often the second one: the person is not merely idle but spineless, agreeing with the powerful because it is safe. Written timeserving or time-serving.
混日子的；見風轉舵、看上位者臉色的（貶義，書面語；多用來批評官員、政客）
組成time + serving, the -ing form of 'serve' used as an adjective. It describes someone serving the time — the clock, or the fashion of the moment — instead of serving the work or a principle.
同家族的字
- timeserverthe noun for the person; same compound
- self-servingsame -serving adjective pattern, also disapproving
- long-servingsame -serving pattern but approving: a long-serving member of staff
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。