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Examples of service in a Sentence
Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
Lyft will still service the airport, but will not pick up or drop off passengers at any Minneapolis locations.
—Trisha Ahmed, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
For the last two decades, the U.S. has spent an average of just 1.6% on servicing its debt, about half of this year’s projections.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2024
The Shelton, Connecticut firm services the alcoholic beverage industry and uses NIQ data tracking retail sales at supermarkets, convenience and select liquor stores.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024
There wasn’t money, anymore, to service the island properly.
—Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Sunil Metcalfe, Black Tomato London-born, Metcalfe shuttles between the UK and the US, servicing ultra high net worth clients on both sides of the Atlantic for Black Tomato.
—The Editors, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2024
Offer Self-Serve Insights In their efforts to service the rest of the business, FP&A teams—as the keepers of the company’s data—are constantly answering questions, filling requests for financial data and tracking down critical details.
—Hunter Madeley, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
His appointment drew immediate fire from some lawmakers, who criticized the company’s board of directors for offering the former GE executive a $7 million bonus for reaching a number of milestones, including returning the 737 Max to service.
—Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
To secure a system's service access rights using private network access for internal services, system access tokens in the internal network for inter-service communication and SSL in the private network are standard practices.
—Oleh Svet, Forbes, 10 June 2022
To celebrate, the service and pre-service music will be recorded and released by Decca Records on the same day.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 May 2023
The Spa at the Breakers in Palm Beach (pictured here) is just one service provider that includes pre-service consult to make guests facing physical limitations or special considerations feel incredibly welcome and at ease before stepping into their facilities.
—Zee Krstic, goodhousekeeping.com, 11 May 2023
Some afternoons, the answer is no, which is just the reality for a small counter-service operation with a large menu apparently designed for almost every taqueria in the chain.
—Tim Carman, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
Now, for the first time, a workable form of passwordless authentication is about to become available to the masses in the form of a standard adopted by Apple, Google, and Microsoft that allows for cross-platform and cross-service passkeys.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 May 2022
This uninvited guest later encounters an ex-service man sleeping in Central Park.
—Jack D. Grant, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2022
Over a half million people logged on to watch the Air Force win the military’s first ever inter-service gaming championship.
—Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2024
Each family was required to fill out a form that asks about potential needs such as food, housing, pro bono legal services and more.
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Apr. 2024
Dining is an important element of a stay at The Chateau where the fabled Lautrec restaurant will continue to offer its renowned five-star cuisine and service.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2024
Its award-winning press release distribution services ensure its customers' most important moments are reaching the right audiences.
—Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
Saint Alphonsus said the agreement will provide stability by allowing patients to continue accessing services at those locations.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2024
In 2021, after suspending visa services for Chinese students during the pandemic, the U.S. resumed them.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
For a small fee, some state agriculture departments offer testing, as do the local extension services of many universities.
—Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
In recent years, Advance has acquired musical theater production company Stage Entertainment, plagiarism-detection service Turnitin and the Ironman Group.
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Noun (1)
Middle English service, servise "state of serving or being at someone's command, position in a household, duty which a tenant is owed to a lord, assistance, form followed in Christian worship, provision of food at a table," borrowed from Anglo-French (also continental Old French), borrowed from Medieval Latin servitium, going back to Latin, "condition of being a slave, servitude," (in plural) "slaves as a class," from servus "slave" + -itium -ice — more at serve entry 1
Note: The Latin noun broadened its meaning in post-classical Latin (and in loans into vernacular languages), so that it effectually functioned as a deverbal noun corresponding to servīre "to serve entry 1."
Verb
derivative of service entry 1
Adjective
from attributive use of service entry 1
Noun (2)
probably respelling by folk-etymological association with service entry 1 of serves, plural of serve "the tree Sorbus domestica, its fruit," going back to Middle English cerve, cirve, serve, going back to Old English syrfe (weak noun), borrowed from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbum "fruit of Sorbus domestica and related species" (of uncertain origin) + -ea, noun derivative of -ea, feminine of -eus -eous
Note: Latin sorbum has been compared with a group of words in East Slavic and Baltic, as Russian sorobalína "blackberry (Rubus sp.)," regional serbalína, serebrína "dog rose," and Lithuanian serbentà, serbénta "black currant (Ribes nigrum)," serbeñtas, ser͂bentas "red currant (Ribes rubrum)," and sirbstù, sir͂bti "to ripen." In the older literature these are linked with an assemblage of words allegedly going back to an Indo-European root *ser-, *sor-, *sr̥- "red, reddish," joined to an assortment of root extensions (compare Lithuanian sar͂tas "bay [of horses]" and other Baltic examples in E. Fraenkel, Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch). More recently, M. de Vaan (Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, Brill, 2011) is skeptical of such a relationship and suggests at best a non-Indo-European etymon *sVrb- meaning "berry."
Noun (1)
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1602, in the meaning defined above
Adjective
1718, in the meaning defined at sense 2
Noun (2)
1530, in the meaning defined above
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“Service.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/service. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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service
1 of 2 noun
service
2 of 2 verb
Medical Definition
service
noun
Legal Definition
service
1 of 2 nounNote: Although service of process is primarily the means for a court to exert personal jurisdiction over a person, some form of service (as by publication of notice in a newspaper) is also usually required for exercise of in rem or quasi in rem jurisdiction.
service
2 of 2 transitive verb
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