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service - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Work that is done for others as an occupation or business.
- noun The performance of work or duties for a superior or as a servant.
- noun An act or a variety of work done for others, especially for pay.
- noun Assistance; help.
- noun An act of assistance or benefit; a favor.
- noun The serving of food or the manner in which it is served.
- noun A set of dishes or utensils.
- noun Employment in duties or work for another, as for a government.
- noun A government branch or department and its employees.
- noun A department or branch of a hospital staff that provides specified patient care.
- noun The armed forces of a nation.
- noun A branch of the armed forces of a nation.
- noun The installation, maintenance, or repairs provided or guaranteed by a dealer or manufacturer.
- noun The provision to the public of something, especially a utility.
- noun The system or equipment used to provide something to the public.
- noun The right of serving in many court games.
- noun A serve.
- noun A religious rite or formal ceremony.
- noun Copulation with a female animal. Used of male animals, especially studs.
- noun Law The serving of a legal process, such as a summons or court order.
- noun The material, such as cord, used in binding or wrapping rope.
- noun An answering service.
- transitive verb To make fit for use; adjust, repair, or maintain.
- transitive verb To provide services to.
- transitive verb To make interest payments on (a debt).
- transitive verb To copulate with (a female animal). Used of a male animal, especially studs.
- transitive verb Slang To have sex with.
- adjective Of or relating to the armed forces of a country.
- adjective Intended for use in supplying or serving.
- adjective Offering repairs or maintenance.
- adjective Offering services to the public in response to need or demand.
- idiom (at (someone's) service) Ready to help or be of use.
- idiom (be of service) To be ready to help or be useful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of copulation between domesticated animals, especially cattle and horses.
- Used ordinarily and every day, as distinguished from use under unusual conditions or in an emergency.
- noun Same as
service-tree . - noun The fruit of the service-tree.
- noun The act of serving, or attendance, in any sense; the rendering of duty to another; obedience; the performance of any office or labor for another.
- noun Specifically
- noun Spiritual obedience, reverence, and love.
- noun The duty which a tenant owes to a lord for his fee: thus, personal service consists in homage and fealty, etc.; annual service in rent, suit to the court of the lord, etc.; accidental services in heriots, reliefs, etc.
- noun Place or position of a servant; employment as a servant; state of being or acting as a servant; menial employ or capacity: as, to be out of service.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin servitium, slavery, from servus, slave.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old French servise (French: service).
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Examples
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****Remember that a *hand-job* to your local police officer is a *public* service, not just a *service*!
Think Progress » ABC’s The Note: Bush Gave His ‘Best TV Performance In Years’ On 60 Minutes 2007
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While I strongly agree with your point a above, I feel that Amp does provide a service for feminist women… are you concerned that he has an *agenda* to provide the *service* rather than to create a blog that looks at multiple viewpoints?
Feminist and feminist-friendly only thread: Civility, “Alas” and feminism 2005
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While I strongly agree with your point a above, I feel that Amp does provide a service for feminist women… are you concerned that he has an *agenda* to provide the *service* rather than to create a blog that looks at multiple viewpoints?
Feminist and feminist-friendly only thread: Civility, “Alas” and feminism 2005
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The Streletsian service was a life service and an hereditary service .
Cranberry Sauce Struve, Gleb 1977
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In fine, the word is applied to all persons doing service for others, and that _merely to designate them as the performers of such service_, whatever it might be, or whatever the ground on which it might be rendered.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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In fine, the word is applied to all persons doing service for others, and that _merely to designate them as the performers of such service_, whatever it might be, or whatever the ground on which it might be rendered.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Distinguish from _être de service_, ‘to be on duty,’ ‘be in attendance’; _se mettre en service_, ‘to go into service.’
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Alphonse Daudet 1868
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_Instructions and Regulations for the service and management of heavy ordnance in the British service_.
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The true and equitable law of humanity is the _free exchange of service for service_.
Sophisms of the Protectionists Fr��d��ric Bastiat 1825
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Customer service performance was measured along multiple dimensions: choice of communication channels, email response, web self-service, cross-channel consistency, single-channel (phone) cross-agent consistency and phone customer service*.
Related Words
synonyms (382)
Words with the same meaning
- American plan
- European plan
- Mass
- a la carte
- accommodation
- account
- acquiescence
- act of grace
- act of kindness
- action
- active service
- activities
- activity
- advantage
- advice
- affair
- affairs
- agency
- aid
- air force
- allegiance
- amenities
- antepast
- applicability
- appointment
- appropriateness
- arm
- armed forces
- army
- assignment
- assistance
- attendance
- avail
- baccalaureate service
- bag
- ball
- be intimate
- bedtime prayer
- behalf
- behoof
- benefaction
- benefit
- benevolence
- benignity
- berth
- billet
- blessing
- bowl
- branch
- business
- busywork
- camp meeting
- care
- cast
- celebration
- ceremonial
- ceremony
- change of pace
- change-up
- chare
- charge
- checking
- chore
- chuck
- chunk
- church
- church service
- cobble
- cohabit
- combat
- come together
- comfort
- commencement
- commerce
- commission
- commit adultery
- compliance
- compline
- concern
- concernment
- condition
- conformity
- convenience
- convocation
- copulate
- couple
- course
- courtesy
- couvert
- cover
- cover charge
- curve
- darn
- dessert
- device
- devotions
- diddle
- dish
- dispensation
- divine service
- do up
- doctor
- downcurve
- duteousness
- dutifulness
- duty
- ease
- employ
- employment
- empty formality
- engagement
- enterprise
- entree
- entremets
- errand
- evening devotions
- evensong
- exercise
- exercises
- expedient
- faith
- fastball
- favor
- fealty
- fighting
- fish to fry
- fitness
- fix
- fix up
- fling
- flip
- form
- form of worship
- formal
- formality
- formula
- formulary
- fornicate
- forward pass
- frig
- function
- gear
- gig
- going between
- good deed
- good offices
- good turn
- grace
- graduation
- graduation exercises
- handling
- have sex
- have sexual relations
- heave
- help
- helping
- holy rite
- homage
- homework
- hurl
- inaugural
- inauguration
- incumbency
- incurve
- indulgence
- inferiority
- initiation
- institution
- instrumentality
- interest
- intermediation
- job
- job of work
- juniority
- kind deed
- kind offices
- kindly act
- kindness
- knuckleball
- labor
- labor of love
- lateral
- lateral pass
- lauds
- lay
- lie with
- liturgy
- lob
- lookout
- lower status
- loyalty
- machinery
- maintenance
- make it with
- make love
- make out
- make-work
- marines
- mate
- matins
- matter
- matters in hand
- mechanism
- mediation
- meeting
- mend
- mending
- mercy
- military
- ministration
- ministry
- mission
- mitzvah
- mode of worship
- moonlighting
- morning devotions
- mount
- mummery
- mystery
- national service
- navy
- night song
- none
- nones
- novena
- obedience
- obediency
- obligation
- observance
- occupation
- odd job
- office
- offices
- opening
- order of worship
- ordinance
- ordinary
- outcurve
- overhaul
- pass
- patch
- patch up
- peg
- peonage
- percentage
- performance
- piece of work
- pitch
- place
- plate
- point
- portion
- position
- post
- practice
- praise meeting
- prayer
- prayer meeting
- prayers
- prescribed form
- prime
- prime song
- profit
- project
- protection
- public worship
- put
- put in commission
- put in order
- put in repair
- put in shape
- ready
- recap
- recondition
- recourse
- relevance
- relief
- religious ceremony
- remedy
- repair
- rescue
- resort
- retread
- revival
- revival meeting
- rig
- rigging
- rite
- rite de passage
- rite of passage
- ritual
- ritual observance
- rituality
- ropework
- roping
- running rigging
- sacrament
- sacramental
- satellite status
- screw
- screwball
- second helping
- second job
- selective service
- self-service
- serfdom
- serve
- serviceability
- services
- servility
- serving
- servitium
- servitorship
- servitude
- set to rights
- sew up
- sext
- shot-put
- shy
- sinker
- situation
- slavery
- sleep with
- slider
- sling
- solemnity
- solemnization
- spitball
- spitter
- standing rigging
- station
- stint
- subjecthood
- submission
- submissiveness
- subordinacy
- subordinate role
- subordination
- subservience
- subserviency
- succor
- suit and service
- suit service
- support
- tackle
- tackling
- talents
- task
- tendance
- tent meeting
- tenure
- therapy
- thing
- things to do
- throw
- tierce
- tinker
- tinker up
- toss
- turn
- undersong
- undertaking
- upcurve
- usage
- use
- usefulness
- utility
- utilization
- vacancy
- value
- vesper
- vespers
- vigils
- waiting
- watch meeting
- watch night
- watch-night service
- whipping
- willingness
- work
- worship
- worth
equivalents (1)
Other words for 'service'
hypernyms (19)
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same context (31)
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cross-references (51)
Cross-references
- active service
- aid
- at one's service
- at your service
- benefit
- breakfast-service
- burial
- civil-service reform
- claim in a service
- constructive service
- covenanted civil service
- cut service
- dessert-service
- dinner-service
- distinguished service order
- divine service
- dry service
- forest service
- free services
- full service
- general service
- harlequin
- long service
- long-service man
- lunch-service
- merchant
- overhand cut service
- plain service
- predial services
- preventive service
- real services
- reclamation service
- revenue-cutter service
- rite
- secret service
- service by publication
- service by substitution
- service of a writ
- service of an heir
- service of the horn
- service paste
- service wires
- substituted service
- table-service
- tenure by divine service
- three hours' service
- to have seen service
- uncovenanted civil service
- united states steamboat inspection service
- worship
- yeoman's service
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