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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