serve notice

[serve notice] {v. phr.}

1. To notify one's employer in a formal or legal manner that one is quitting the former's employment.

* /She gave notice to her boss that she was quitting because of marriage./

2. To notify an employee or a tenant that one no longer needs their services or wishes to have them as tenants.

* /The new landlady gave notice to several families in our building because they were late in paying their rent./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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