loyal servant

collocation in English

meaningsofloyalandservant

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loyal
adjective
uk
/ˈlɔɪ.əl/us
/ˈlɔɪ.əl/
firm and not changing in your friendship with or support for a person or an organization, or in your belief in ...
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servant
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.vənt/us
/ˈsɝː.vənt/
a person who is employed in another person's house, doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning, especially in ...
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(Definition ofloyalandservantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofloyal servant

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What a way to treat aloyalservantof this industry.
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I hope that the question of penalties will not arise since, as the commission said, noloyalservanthas anything to fear.
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The nation must be extremely grateful to have been so well served for many years by such aloyalservant.
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Exactly, as a faithful andloyalservantdischarging his duty with the impartiality characteristic of a civil servant.
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Stanworth was working for the health board unpaid—that is how the board treated thatloyalservant.
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He is aloyalservant, one of the fairies who lure children into her snare with his flute.
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Moreover, may the king, my lord, heed the words of hisloyalservant.
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For what reason is yourloyalservantso treated?
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It reveals that the runaway princess was not really a traitor and that herloyalservanthad hidden the truth inside her coffin.
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Garca was also aloyalservantof the king, who granted him largesse on three occasions.
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This was done with the help of many of those loyal servants abandoned in the preceding crises.
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Give thought to yourloyalservant.
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In order to prevent her from remembering her hatred for them, the leader suggests they break her down and teach her place as theirloyalservant.
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The two-year-old prince is smuggled out of the palace by aloyalservantduring the coup and secretly raised as the servant's son to protect his identity.
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As we have noted in this study, peasants were in favour of keeping competent and loyal servants, and would gladly promote them if possible.
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His character can vary greatly: he can be aloyalservantor simply scheming for his master's downfall; he can be a deceitful husband or be deceived by his wife.
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