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 Streletsian service was a life service and an hereditary service.
The true and equitable law of humanity is the _free exchange of service for service_.
_Instructions and Regulations for the service and management of heavy ordnance in the British service_.
****Remember that a *hand-job* to your local police officer is a *public* service, not just a *service*!
Distinguish from _être de service_, ‘to be on duty,’ ‘be in attendance’; _se mettre en service_, ‘to go into service.’
In fine, the word is applied to all persons doing service for others, and that _merely to designate them as the performers of such service_, whatever it might be, or whatever the ground on which it might be rendered.
While I strongly agree with your point a above, I feel that Amp does provide a service for feminist women… are you concerned that he has an *agenda* to provide the *service* rather than to create a blog that looks at multiple viewpoints?
Customer service performance was measured along multiple dimensions: choice of communication channels, email response, web self-service, cross-channel consistency, single-channel (phone) cross-agent consistency and phone customer service*.