service | the performance of duties by a waiter or servant, that restaurant has excellent service |
curb service | service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles |
self-service | the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria) |
overhaul inspection and repair service | periodic maintenance on a car or machine, it was time for an overhaul on the tractor |
service serving service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
service cutback | the act of reducing service |
serve service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play, his powerful serves won the game |
service | work done by one person or group that benefits another, budget separately for goods and services |
consulting service | service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) |
advisory service | a consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making |
attestation service attestation report | a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else |
national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
service | (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him |
military service | land tenure by service in the lord's army |
knight's service | land tenure by service to the lord as a knight |
welfare work social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
service | employment in or work for another, he retired afteryears of service |
public service | employment within a government system (especially in the civil service) |
press military press | a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead |
sea-duty service abroad shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea |
military censorship | all types of censorship conducted by personnel of the armed forces |
servicing service | the act of mating by male animals, the bull was worth good money in servicing fees |
extension extension service university extension | an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students |
military training | training soldiers in military procedures |
military drill | training in marching and the use of weapons |
military action action | a military engagement, he saw action in Korea |
operation military operation | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign), it was a joint operation of the navy and air force |
maneuver manoeuvre simulated military operation | a military training exercise |
campaign military campaign | several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) |
expedition military expedition hostile expedition | a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country |
mission military mission | an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters, the planes were on a bombing mission |
military ceremony | a military custom performed in observance of some event or anniversary |
service religious service divine service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules, the Sunday service |
church service church | a service conducted in a house of worship, don't be late for church |
prayer meeting prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
chapel service chapel | a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar, he was late for chapel |
committal service | service committing a body to the grave, the committal service will be held next Monday |
siege besieging beleaguering military blockade | the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack |
occupation military control | the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power |
conscription muster draft selective service | compulsory military service |
service | an act of help or assistance, he did them a service |
disservice ill service ill turn | an act intended to help that turns out badly, he did them a disservice |
community service | an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence |
community service public service | a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions |
inter-service support | action by one military service to provide logistic (or administrative) support to another military service |
service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
cable cable television cable system cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
dinner service dinner set | a table service for serving dinner |
freight elevator service elevator | an elevator designed for carrying freight |
frontage road service road | a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property |