Service

Noun

 * 1) An event in which an entity takes the responsibility that something desirable happens on the behalf of another entity.
 * 2)  Action or work that is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
 * Hair care is a service industry.
 * 1)  A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
 * 2) The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
 * Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.
 * This machine provides the name service for the LAN.
 * 1) The military.
 * I did three years in the service before coming here.
 * 1) A set of dishes or utensils.
 * She brought out the silver tea service.
 * 1)  The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
 * The player had four service faults in the set.
 * 1) A religious rite or ritual.
 * The funeral service was touching.
 * 1)  The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
 * The service happened yesterday.

Antonyms

 * good
 * capital

Derived terms

 * accept service
 * advisory service
 * all-up service
 * answering service
 * bond service
 * church service
 * civil service
 * client service
 * community service
 * curb service
 * customer service
 * debt service
 * denial of service
 * denture service
 * dinner service
 * diplomatic service
 * disservice
 * divine service
 * ecological service
 * emergency service
 * escort service
 * extension service


 * eyeservice
 * fanservice
 * fee-for-service
 * food service
 * foreign service
 * full-service
 * health service
 * ill service
 * in service
 * lip service
 * memorial service
 * military service
 * multiservice
 * national service
 * online service
 * out of service
 * personal service
 * postal service
 * power service
 * prayer service
 * public service
 * quality of service


 * room service
 * secret service
 * Secret Service
 * selective service
 * self-service
 * service area
 * service book
 * service break
 * service bureau
 * service call
 * service cap
 * service ceiling
 * service center
 * service charge
 * service club
 * service contract
 * service court
 * service door
 * service elevator
 * service line
 * service loop
 * service mark


 * service module
 * service of process
 * service pipe
 * service plaza
 * service provider
 * service road
 * service station
 * service stripe
 * service tree
 * serviceman
 * servicewoman
 * shared service
 * silent service
 * silver service
 * social service
 * substituted service
 * table service
 * tea service
 * unservice
 * unserviced
 * web service
 * wire service
 * yeoman's service

Verb

 * 1)  To serve.
 * They service the customer base.
 * 1)  To perform maintenance.
 * He is going to service the car.
 * 1)  To perform a sexual act.
 * He was going to service her.

Adjectives for Service
right; courteous; efficient; thoughtful; unmatched; celebrated; gracious;  willing; flawless; fine; unusual; alert; deft; helpful; extra; fast; expert; gallant; lip; financial; insurgent; domestic; unedifying; invidious; trustworthy; distinguished; meritorious; inestimable; deferred; memorial; typographic; professional; priestly; peaceful; suitable; religious; imposing; costly; gratuitous; humblest; valuable; haulage; exalted; gruelling; maximum; reluctant; economical; perfunctory; abiding; engineering; impressive; essential; thankless; desperate; dependable; perpetual; honorable; promising; brisk; consecrated; immense; unionized; superior; committal; disastrous; proffered; beneficial; table; scant; eminent; civil; diplomatic;scientific; gloomy; garrison; reasonable; unselfish; surgical; superlative; industrial; imperative; utility; erection; unique; satisfactory; management; continuous; lasting; hazardous; charitable; meticulous; unmen-aced; silver; ceremonious; arduous; glorioas; solitary; strenuous; specific; secretarial, mutual; hateful; particular; duteous; visory;  supervisory;  auxiliary;  filial; golden; dependable; prompt; consular; diffused; manifold (pi); musical; meager.

Verbs for Service
abandon—; arise in—; attend—; attribute—; bribe—; call for—; command—; conduct—; correlate—; crave—; culminate—; dedicate—; dislocate—; dispense with—; display—; dispose of—; distinguish—; draw into—; engage in—; enlist—; experience—; force from—; induce into—; introduce into—; lay down—; maintain—; modernize— obligate to—; paralyze—; participate in— prepare for—; press into—; provide— regiment into—; render—; review—; reward—; slash—; sublimate—; supplant suspend—; terminate—; toil in—; unify volunteer—.

Thesaurus
American plan, European plan, Mass, a la carte, accommodation, account, acquiescence, act of grace, act of kindness, action, active service, activities, activity, advantage, advice, affair, affairs, agency, aid, air force, allegiance, amenities, antepast, applicability, appointment, appropriateness, arm, armed forces, army, assignment, assistance, attendance, avail, baccalaureate service, bag, ball, be intimate, bedtime prayer, behalf, behoof, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, berth, billet, blessing, bowl, branch, business, busywork, camp meeting, care, cast, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, change of pace, change-up, chare, charge, checking, chore, chuck, chunk, church, church service, cobble, cohabit, combat, come together, comfort, commencement, commerce, commission, commit adultery, compliance, compline, concern, concernment, condition, conformity, convenience, convocation, copulate, couple, course, courtesy, couvert, cover, cover charge, curve, darn, dessert, device, devotions, diddle, dish, dispensation, divine service, do up, doctor, downcurve, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, ease, employ, employment, empty formality, engagement, enterprise, entree, entremets, errand, evening devotions, evensong, exercise, exercises, expedient, faith, fastball, favor, fealty, fighting, fish to fry, fitness, fix, fix up, fling, flip, form, form of worship, formal, formality, formula, formulary, fornicate, forward pass, frig, function, gear, gig, going between, good deed, good offices, good turn, grace, graduation, graduation exercises, handling, have sex, have sexual relations, heave, help, helping, holy rite, homage, homework, hurl, inaugural, inauguration, incumbency, incurve, indulgence, inferiority, initiation, institution, instrumentality, interest, intermediation, job, job of work, juniority, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, knuckleball, labor, labor of love, lateral, lateral pass, lauds, lay, lie with, liturgy, lob, lookout, lower status, loyalty, machinery, maintenance, make it with, make love, make out, make-work, marines, mate, matins, matter, matters in hand, mechanism, mediation, meeting, mend, mending, mercy, military, ministration, ministry, mission, mitzvah, mode of worship, moonlighting, morning devotions, mount, mummery, mystery, national service, navy, night song, none, nones, novena, obedience, obediency, obligation, observance, occupation, odd job, office, offices, opening, order of worship, ordinance, ordinary, outcurve, overhaul, pass, patch, patch up, peg, peonage, percentage, performance, piece of work, pitch, place, plate, point, portion, position, post, practice, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prescribed form, prime, prime song, profit, project, protection, public worship, put, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, ready, recap, recondition, recourse, relevance, relief, religious ceremony, remedy, repair, rescue, resort, retread, revival, revival meeting, rig, rigging, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance, rituality, ropework, roping, running rigging, sacrament, sacramental, satellite status, screw, screwball, second helping, second job, selective service, self-service, serfdom, serve, serviceability, services, servility, serving, servitium, servitorship, servitude, set to rights, sew up, sext, shot-put, shy, sinker, situation, slavery, sleep with, slider, sling, solemnity, solemnization, spitball, spitter, standing rigging, station, stint, subjecthood, submission, submissiveness, subordinacy, subordinate role, subordination, subservience, subserviency, succor, suit and service, suit service, support, tackle, tackling, talents, task, tendance, tent meeting, tenure, therapy, thing, things to do, throw, tierce, tinker, tinker up, toss, turn, undersong, undertaking, upcurve, usage, use, usefulness, utility, utilization, vacancy, value, vesper, vespers, vigils, waiting, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, whipping, willingness, work, worship, worth

Etymology

 * From servise: (French: service:).

Noun

 * Finnish: ,


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Afrikaans: diens
 * Albanian: shërbim
 * Arabic: (khídma)
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: xidmət
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian: eksploatacija
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: teenus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სამსახური (samsakhuri)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שירות
 * Hungarian:, szolgáltatás
 * Indonesian: jawa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 務め (つとめ, tsutome), サービス (さーびす, sābisu)
 * Korean:, , 용역
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خزمه‌ت


 * Latvian: pīlādzis
 * Lithuanian: tarnyba
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tjeneste
 * Nynorsk: teneste
 * Persian: (khidmat)
 * Polish: usługiwanie ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: serviciu
 * Russian:, обслуживание, сервис
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: експлоатација (eksploatacija)
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సేవ (saeva)
 * Thai: (gaan borrígaan)
 * Turkish: hızmet
 * Uyghur: armiye türi
 * Vietnamese: cây thanh lương trà
 * Welsh: gweinidogaeth
 * Yiddish: דינסט


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:


 * Hungarian: szolgáltatás
 * Polish:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: alaisuus


 * Hungarian: szolgálat


 * Armenian: ծառայում
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Estonian: teenistus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: szolgálat
 * Indonesian:
 * Korean: 복무
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Armenian:
 * Estonian: serviis
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hebrew: שירות
 * Hungarian: készlet, szerviz


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, aloitussyöttö
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: adogatás, szerva


 * Korean:
 * Mandarin: подача
 * Russian: подача
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: servo
 * Estonian: jumalateenistus


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: tuomion lukeminen


 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Estonian: teenindama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Indonesian: layanan
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: hudumia


 * Estonian: hooldama
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: szervizel
 * Portuguese: fazer a manutenção
 * Swahili: hudumia

Descendants

 * Korean: 서비스 (seobiseu)

Noun

 * 1) service

Noun

 * 1) service

Etymology
From servitium:, from servus:.

Anagrams

 * écrives

Noun

 * 1) service, the level of comfort offered by assistants and servants (the opposite of self-service)
 * 2) maintenance and repair
 * min bil är inne på service
 * my car is at the workshop

Related terms

 * fullservice
 * kundservice
 * serva
 * serviceverkstad