subserve

VERB
  1. be helpful or useful
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How To Use subserve In A Sentence

  • The government seems to have been privatised; its instruments have to subserve party interests.
  • He would be expected to subserve American interests in return.
  • The guinea-pig has teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence can never subserve the masticatory purpose for which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, the female dugong has tusks which never cut the gum. Essays
  • Localizability in this sense goes beyond mere implementation in local neural circuitry, since a given bit of circuitry could (and often does) subserve more than one cognitive function. Modularity of Mind
  • Conceptually, the idea is that religion, which may impede certain individual reproductive interests, could nevertheless subserve the interests of groups.
  • The guinea-pig has teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence can never subserve the masticatory purpose for which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, the female dugong has tusks which never cut the gum. Essays
  • I therefore thought that the interest of the service would be subserved by removing one whose growing indifference might render the best-laid plans inoperative. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • For both tacitly assume that language learning, including syntactic learning, is not (or not entirely) subserved by special-purpose mechanisms. Innateness and Language
  • Another characteristic of the study of sensory aging is that the stimuli used are relatively impoverished in that they are often devoid of the environmental information that subserves perception, attention, and memory.
  • This ponderous coin subserved a purpose which our penny does to-day. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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