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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.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: service

1	n	an act of help or assistance
2	n v	a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation be used by; as of a utility
3	n v	the act of mating by male animals mate with
4	n v	periodic maintenance on a car or machine make fit for use
5	n	the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
6	n	(sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
7	n	tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
8	n	a force that is a branch of the armed forces
9	n	the act of public worship following prescribed rules

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: service

n an act of help or assistance

“he did them a service”

Antonyms:: disservice, ill service, ill turn
an act intended to help that turns out badly

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; child care, childcare
a service involving care for other people's children; community service
an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence; community service, public service
a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions; help desk, helpdesk
a service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network; seating
the service of ushering people to their seats; day care, daycare
childcare during the day while parents work

Type of:: aid, assist, assistance, help
the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

n work done by one person or group that benefits another

“budget separately for goods and services”

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; consulting service
service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.); facility
a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; national service
compulsory service in the military during peacetime; utility
the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility; 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; 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

Type of:: work
activity directed toward making or doing something

n a means of serving

Synonyms:: avail, help

Type of:: helpfulness
the property of providing useful assistance

n employment in or work for another

“he retired after 30 years of service”

Type of:: employment, work
the occupation for which you are paid

n the performance of duties by a waiter or servant

“that restaurant has excellent service”

Types:: curb service
service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles; self-service
the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria); 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

Type of:: accommodation
the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

n (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

Types:: socage
land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service; military service
land tenure by service in the lord's army; knight's service
land tenure by service to the lord as a knight

Type of:: activity
any specific behavior

n a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation, utility
a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation; phone company, phone service, telco, telephone company, telephone service
a public utility that provides telephone service; electric company, light company, power company, power service
a public utility that provides electricity; water company, waterworks
a public utility that provides water; gas company, gas service
a public utility that provides gas; bus company, bus service
a public utility providing local transportation

Type of:: company
an institution created to conduct business

v be used by; as of a utility

Synonyms:: serve

: function, serve
serve a purpose, role, or function

Type of:: function, go, operate, run, work
perform as expected when applied

n the act of mating by male animals

“the bull was worth good money in servicing fees”

Synonyms:: servicing

Type of:: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union
the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

v mate with

Synonyms:: serve

Types:: stand
be available for stud services

Type of:: copulate, couple, mate, pair
engage in sexual intercourse

n periodic maintenance on a car or machine

Synonyms:: inspection and repair, overhaul

Types:: interim overhaul
an overhaul between the regular times for overhauling

Type of:: care, maintenance, upkeep
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order

v make fit for use

“service my truck”

“the washing machine needs to be serviced”

Type of:: tune, tune up
adjust for (better) functioning

n the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone

“he accepted service of the subpoena”

Synonyms:: service of process, serving

Type of:: bringing, delivery
the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)

n (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play

Synonyms:: serve

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; ace
a serve that the receiver is unable to reach; fault
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); let, net ball
a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again; double fault
(tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point; footfault
a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline

Type of:: tennis shot, tennis stroke
the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket

n tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table

Synonyms:: table service

Types:: dinner service, dinner set
a table service for serving dinner; place setting, setting
a table service for one person

Type of:: tableware
articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware)

n a force that is a branch of the armed forces

Synonyms:: armed service, military service

Types:: show 15 types...; hide 15 types...; army, ground forces, regular army
a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state; naval forces, navy
an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare; coastguard
a military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters; Marines
members of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea; air force, airforce
the airborne branch of a country's armed forces; host, legion
archaic terms for army; 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; Marine Corps, US Marine Corps, USMC, United States Marine Corps, United States Marines
an amphibious division of the United States Navy; Air Corps
formerly the airborne division of the United States Army; RAF, Royal Air Force
the airforce of Great Britain; German Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe
the German airforce; standing army
a permanent army of paid soldiers; Union Army
the northern army during the American Civil War; Army of the Confederacy, Confederate Army
the southern army during the American Civil War; Continental Army
the American army during the American Revolution

Type of:: force, personnel
group of people willing to obey orders

n the act of public worship following prescribed rules

“the Sunday service”

Synonyms:: divine service, religious service

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; church, church service
a service conducted in a house of worship; devotional
a short religious service; prayer meeting, prayer service
a service at which people sing hymns and pray together; chapel, chapel service
a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar; committal service
service committing a body to the grave; 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; vesper
a late afternoon or evening worship service; watch night
a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve); placebo
(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead

Type of:: religious ceremony, religious ritual
a ceremony having religious meaning

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