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')