SERVICE


Meaning of SERVICE in English

n.

work done for others

1) to do, offer, perform, provide, render a ~

2) custom; meritorious; public; yeoman ('loyal') ~

3) professional; social ( BE ) ~s (a fee for professional ~s)

4) ~ to (she received an award for meritorious ~ to the community)

5) ( misc. ) to press smb. into ~

facility that satisfies a need

6) to introduce; offer, provide; restore ~

7) to suspend a ~

8) an ambulance; answering; bus; clipping ( AE ), press-cutting ( BE ); customer; dating; delivery; diaper ( AE ); door-to-door; employment ( esp. AE ); express; ferry; health-visitor ( BE ), visiting-nurse ( AE ); janitorial ( AE ); laundry; limousine ( esp. AE ); news, wire; placement; postal; repair; room; telephone; towing ~

operation, use

9) to see ~ (this equipment has seen plenty of ~)

10) in; out of ~ (the bus was not in ~)

11) ( misc. ) to put smt. into ~

disposal

12) to be at smb.'s ~

help, benefit

13) to be of ~ to

religious ceremony

14) to hold a ~; to hold ~s

15) a burial; marriage; memorial; prayer, religious ~

16) an evening; morning; noontime; sunrise ~ (they hold sunrise ~s once a week)

set of utensils

17) a coffee; dinner; tea ~

18) a ~ for

administrative division of government

19) the civil; consular; diplomatic; foreign; intelligence, secret ~

20) human ~s ('social ~s')

game during which one serves

(tennis)

21) to hold ('win'); lose one's ~

22) to break smb.'s ~

duty in the armed forces

23) to see ~ (she saw ~ during the Second World War)

24) military; national ( BE ), selective ( AE ) ~

25) active; inactive ~

26) in the ~

position as a servant

( esp. BE )

27) domestic ~

28) to be in ~; to go into ~

scheduled routes, flights

29) to introduce; offer, provide ~

30) to suspend ~

31) daily; regular ~

32) ~ between; from; to (regular ~ between two cities; that airline provides daily ~ from New York to London)

manner of dealing with customers

33) fast; fine; slow ~

misc.

34) lip ~ ('meaningless promises')

The Bbi combinatory dictionary of English, a guide to word combinations.      Комбинаторный словарь английского языка Bbi. Руководство по словосочетаниям.