service
Other forms: services; servicing; serviced
If you perform duties that help someone else, you're providing a service. If you make dinner for your neighbor's children while she's in the hospital, you're doing a good service.
Service has many uses, all having to do with serving someone, or doing something for them. In a restaurant the waiter provides service, and if you do something nice for someone, you've done him a good service. If you're in someone's service that means you work for her. Service can also mean a verb meaning "to fix," like when the maintenance whiz services the photocopier, or the mechanic services your car. In church, a ceremony is also called a service.
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an act of help or assistance“he did them a service”
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disservice, ill service, ill turn
an act intended to help that turns out badly
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child care, childcare
a service involving care for other people's children
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community service
an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence
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community service, public service
a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions
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help desk, helpdesk
a service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network
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seating
the service of ushering people to their seats
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day care, daycare
childcare during the day while parents work
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aid, assist, assistance, help
the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
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disservice, ill service, ill turn
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work done by one person or group that benefits another“budget separately for goods and services”
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consulting service
service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.)
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facility
a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
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national service
compulsory service in the military during peacetime
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utility
the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
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advisory service
a consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making
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attestation report, attestation service
a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else
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work
activity directed toward making or doing something
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a means of serving
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helpfulness
the property of providing useful assistance
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helpfulness
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employment in or work for another“he retired after 30 years of service”
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employment, work
the occupation for which you are paid
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employment, work
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the performance of duties by a waiter or servant“that restaurant has excellent service”
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curb service
service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles
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self-service
the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria)
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valet parking
a service provided (at a club or restaurant or airport etc.) whereby a patron leaves a car at the entrance and an attendant parks and retrieves it
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accommodation
the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
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curb service
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(law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him
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socage
land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service
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military service
land tenure by service in the lord's army
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knight's service
land tenure by service to the lord as a knight
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activity
any specific behavior
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socage
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a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
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public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation, utility
a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
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phone company, phone service, telco, telephone company, telephone service
a public utility that provides telephone service
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electric company, light company, power company, power service
a public utility that provides electricity
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water company, waterworks
a public utility that provides water
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gas company, gas service
a public utility that provides gas
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bus company, bus service
a public utility providing local transportation
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company
an institution created to conduct business
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be used by; as of a utility
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the act of mating by male animals
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servicing
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conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
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conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union
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mate with
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periodic maintenance on a car or machine
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inspection and repair, overhaul
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interim overhaul
an overhaul between the regular times for overhauling
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care, maintenance, upkeep
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
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interim overhaul
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make fit for use
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the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone“he accepted service of the subpoena”
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service of process, serving
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(sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
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serve
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ace
a serve that the receiver is unable to reach
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fault
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
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let, net ball
a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again
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double fault
(tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point
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footfault
a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline
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tennis shot, tennis stroke
the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket
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tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
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table service
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dinner service, dinner set
a table service for serving dinner
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place setting, setting
a table service for one person
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tableware
articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware)
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dinner service, dinner set
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a force that is a branch of the armed forces
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armed service, military service
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army, ground forces, regular army
a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state
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naval forces, navy
an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
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coastguard
a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters
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Marines
members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea
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air force, airforce
the airborne branch of a country's armed forces
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host, legion
archaic terms for army
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U. S. Coast Guard, US Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard
an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce
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Marine Corps, US Marine Corps, USMC, United States Marine Corps, United States Marines
an amphibious division of the United States Navy
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Air Corps
formerly the airborne division of the United States Army
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RAF, Royal Air Force
the airforce of Great Britain
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German Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe
the German airforce
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standing army
a permanent army of paid soldiers
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Union Army
the northern army during the American Civil War
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Army of the Confederacy, Confederate Army
the southern army during the American Civil War
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Continental Army
the American army during the American Revolution
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the act of public worship following prescribed rules“the Sunday service”
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divine service, religious service
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church, church service
a service conducted in a house of worship
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devotional
a short religious service
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prayer meeting, prayer service
a service at which people sing hymns and pray together
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chapel, chapel service
a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar
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committal service
service committing a body to the grave
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none
a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier
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vesper
a late afternoon or evening worship service
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watch night
a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve)
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placebo
(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead
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religious ceremony, religious ritual
a ceremony having religious meaning
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