Definitions for services

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services serv·ice

Spelling: [sur-vis]

IPA: /ˈsɜr vɪs/

Services is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in services (ceeirssv).

Definitions for services

noun

1. an act of helpful activity; help; aid:
2. the supplying or supplier of utilities or commodities, as water, electricity, or gas, required or demanded by the public.
3. the providing or a provider of accommodation and activities required by the public, as maintenance, repair, etc.:
4. the organized system of apparatus, appliances, employees, etc., for supplying some accommodation required by the public:
5. the supplying or a supplier of public communication and transportation:
6. the performance of duties or the duties performed as or by a waiter or servant; occupation or employment as a waiter or servant.
7. employment in any duties or work for a person, organization, government, etc.
8. a department of public employment, an administrative division of a government, or the body of public servants in it:
9. the duty or work of public servants.
10. the serving of a sovereign, state, or government in some official capacity.
11. Military. the armed forces: a branch of the armed forces, as the army or navy:
12. Ordnance. the actions required in loading and firing a cannon:
13. Often, services. the performance of any duties or work for another; helpful or professional activity:
14. something made or done by a commercial organization for the public benefit and without regard to direct profit:
15. Also called divine service. public religious worship according to prescribed form and order.
16. a ritual or form prescribed for public worship or for some particular occasion:
17. the serving of God by obedience, piety, etc.:
18. a musical setting of the sung portions of a liturgy.
19. a set of dishes, utensils, etc., for general table use or for particular use:
20. answering service.
21. Law. the serving of a process or writ upon a person.
22. Nautical. tarred spun yarn or other small stuff for covering the exterior of a rope.
23. the act or manner of putting the ball or shuttlecock into play; serve. the ball or shuttlecock as put into play.
24. the mating of a female animal with the male.
25. a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
26. the shadbush.

Idioms

1. at someone's service, ready to be of help or use to someone; at one's disposal:
2. be of service, to be helpful or useful:

adjective

1. of service; useful.
2. of, relating to, or used by servants, delivery people, etc., or in serving food:
3. supplying aids or services rather than products or goods:
4. supplying maintenance and repair:
5. of, for, or pertaining to the armed forces of a country or one of them:
6. charged for providing service:
7. providing, authorizing, or guaranteeing service:

verb (used with object)

1. to make fit for use; repair; restore to condition for service:
2. to supply with aid, information, or other incidental services.
3. (of a male animal) to mate with (a female animal).
4. Finance. to pay off (a debt) over a period of time, as by meeting periodic interest payments.

Origin of services

before 1100; Middle English (noun) Old French Latin servitium servitude, equivalent to serv(us) slave + -itium -ice; replacing Middle English servise, late Old English

Examples for services

The services of the priest had then to be dispensed with for weeks, even months, at a time.

Her services include a makeup session for a night out for $50.

services like Airbnb, Yelp, and yes, Uber are disrupting long-established industries, from taxis to hotels.

In the afternoon, services were held in the chapel downstairs.

In the midst of this generosity, the services of Geta and Milza were not forgotten.

Users “should be allowed to use these devices and services the way they were intended,” Brookman says.

I can bear witness to the value of her services in South Carolina and Florida.

After signing on to the film, Moore enlisted the services of her 30 Rock costar Alec Baldwin to play her caring husband.

I can only say that if my services are required I shall be found ready and willing.

“We met the smuggler in the train station; he came to speak with us about the services he provided,” Yazbek says.