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sub⋅serve

  [suhb-surv]
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–verb (used with object), -served, -serv⋅ing.
1. to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.): Light exercise subserves digestion.
2. Obsolete. to serve as a subordinate.
Origin:
1610–20; < L subservīre, equiv. to sub- sub- + servīre to serve
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sub·serve   (səb-sûrv')   
tr.v.   sub·served, sub·serv·ing, sub·serves
To serve to promote (an end); be useful to.

[Latin subservīre : sub-, sub- + servīre, to serve; see serve.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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