service
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Is service a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military.Examples: "Thank you for your service."Synonyms: military serviceuncountable
2. (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.Examples: "Hair care is a service industry."; "The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention."countableuncountable
3. (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).Synonyms: utilitycountableuncountable
4. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.Examples: "This machine provides the name service for the LAN."countableuncountable
5. (with the) The military.Examples: "the service"; "I did three years in the service before coming here."countableuncountable
6. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.Examples: "The player had four service faults in the set."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To serve.Examples: "They service the customer base."; "The USS Manila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3, services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time."transitive
2. (transitive) To serve.Examples: "He is going to service the car."; "2 GWM businessmen seek young GM to service nice small country home in So. NH"transitive
3. (transitive) To serve.Examples: "One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing."; "[…] instead of expending so much of their PR effort on servicing the media."transitive
4. (transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).Examples: "It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs."transitive
5. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.euphemistictransitive
6. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.Examples: "He serviced her several times a week."Synonyms: be withtransitivevulgar
Definition source: Wiktionary