in service Definition

service
noun

1. The condition or occupation of being a servant or someone who serves.
2. Work carried out for or on behalf of others.
3. The act or manner of serving.
4. Use or usefulness.

Example: Your services are no longer required
Example: This car has given me good service
5. A favour or any beneficial act

Example: Can I be of service?
Thesaurus: aid, assistance, help, cooperation.
6. Employment as a member of an organization working to serve or benefit others in some way; such an organization.

Example: a public service
Example: the civil service
7. The personnel employed in such an organization.
8. The requirements of members of such an organization.
9. Assistance given to customers in a shop, restaurant, etc.
10. A facility provided.

Example: British Rail ran an excellent service
11. An occasion of worship or other religious ceremony; the words, etc used on such an occasion.

Example: the marriage service
Thesaurus: rite, ceremony, sermon, worship, observance.
12. A liturgical form or the musical setting of it.
13. A complete set of cutlery and crockery.

Example: a dinner service
14. The supply eg of water, public transport, etc.

Form: services (usually)
15. A periodic check and sometimes repair of the workings of a vehicle or other machine.
16. In racket sports: the act of putting the ball into play, or the game in which it is a particular player's turn to do so.

Example: He lost his service game
Example: That was a poor service
17. A service charge, eg in a restaurant.

Example: service not included
18. Any of the armed forces.

Form: services (often)
19. The participation of their members in warfare.
20. A service area.

Form: services
21. Employment as a domestic servant.
22. The duty required of a feudal tenant.
23. Cord or other material for serving a rope.
24. For use by domestic servants.

Example: service entrance
25. Referring to the army, navy or air force.

verb serviced, servicing

1. To subject (a vehicle, etc) to a periodic check.

Thesaurus: maintain, care for, sustain, repair, overhaul, recondition.
2. Said of a male animal: to mate with (a female).

Idiom: at someone's service

Ready to serve or give assistance to them.

Idiom: be of service to someone

To help or be useful to them.

Idiom: in service

In use or operation.

Working as a domestic servant.

Idiom: out of service

Broken; not in operation.

Etymology: 12c: from Latin servitium, from servire to serve.