serve well Meaning of "serve well"

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Definition(s):

  • (v) promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to

Usage(s):

  1. If that seems excessive, keep in mind that part of the new, hoped-for culture of the boardroom will be that directors will no longer sit on more boards than they can serve well.
  2. Turkey feathers may serve well enough for Boy Scouts in summer-camp loincloth dances, but not for authentic Indians.
  3. All of them could serve well to symbolize the result of her five-day visit: a new flowering in the relations between the world's two largest democracies.
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