service

IPA: sˈɝvʌs

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.

(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.

Examples of "service" in Sentences

The levy is collected by the Customs Service.
The client is the entity which uses the service.
The customer service centre is unaffected by the closure.
It is the expectation of the customer from the service provider.
Then as now, care of the indigent was an important service at GW.
Yaml files allow the developer to customize the service container.
Gender, pregnancy and the uptake of antenatal care services in Pakistan.
From the destination service center, the freight is delivered to the customer.
Service is an intangible flow of good which increases the utility of the client.