Service

/ˈsɜː.vɪs/ · noun

Meaning

An act of being of assistance to someone..

Definitions by Sense

1. An act of being of assistance to someone.
2. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
3. (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military.
4. (with the) The military.
5. (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
6. (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
7. A department in a company, organization, or institution.
8. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.

Example Sentences

I say I did him a service by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.

The Parliament for ever cries more money, / The service of the state demands more money. / Just heaven! of what service is the state?

Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.

The lesser griefs that may be said, / ⁠That breathe a thousand tender vows, / ⁠Are but as servants in a house / Where lies the master newly dead; / Who speak their feeling as it is, / ⁠And weep the fulness from the mind: / ⁠‘It will be hard’ they say ‘to find / Another service such as this.’

Thank you for your service.

the service

I did three years in the service before coming here.

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Related Words

Word Forms

• services
• seruice
• servicing
• serviced

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