time-serving
Opportunistic; conforming to the status quo in order to serve one's own interests.
Adjective
- Opportunistic; conforming to the status quo in order to serve one's own interests.
- And the man who had just been engaged in the most time-serving neglect of former, and a most cringing anticipation of new patrons, became forthwith the kind and hospitable host of strangers who had no claim upon him...
- Harding brought with him a timeserving pal from The Times called Keith Blackmore, who was equally a stranger to broadcasting. - 2016 November, Jonathan Meades, “Inside Job”, in Literary Review:
Forms
Noun
- Opportunism.
- The functionality of a timeserver.