service
IPA: sˈɝvʌs
noun
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
- Work as a member of the military.
- (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
- (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
- A department in a company, organization, or institution.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- The military.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
- (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
- Service tree.
- The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri, United States.
verb
- (transitive) To serve.
- (transitive) To perform maintenance.
- (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
- (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.
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