A service is something that the public needs, such as transport, communications facilities, hospitals, or energy supplies, which is provided in a planned and organized way by the government or an official body.

You can sometimes refer to an organization or private company as a particular service when it provides something for the public or acts on behalf of the government.

If an organization or company provides a particular service, they can do a particular job or a type of work for you.

Services are activities such as tourism, banking, and selling things which are part of a country's economy, but are not concerned with producing or manufacturing goods.

The level or standard of service provided by an organization or company is the amount or quality of the work it can do for you.

A bus or train service is a route or regular journey that is part of a transport system.

Your services are the things that you do or the skills that you use in your job, which other people find useful and are usually willing to pay you for.

If you refer to someone's service or services to a particular organization or activity, you mean that they have done a lot of work for it or spent a lot of their time on it.

The Services are the army, the navy, and the air force.

Service is the work done by people or equipment in the army, navy, or air force, for example during a war.

When you receive service in a restaurant, hotel, or shop, an employee asks you what you want or gives you what you have ordered.

A service is a religious ceremony that takes place in a church.

A dinner service or a tea service is a complete set of plates, cups, saucers, and other pieces of china.

A services is a place beside a motorway where you can buy petrol and other things, or have a meal.

In tennis, badminton, and some other sports, when it is your service, it is your turn to serve.

Service is used to describe the parts of a building or structure that are used by the staff who clean, repair, or look after it, and are not usually used by the public.

If someone is in service, they are working as a servant.

If you have a vehicle or machine serviced, you arrange for someone to examine, adjust, and clean it so that it will keep working efficiently and safely.

If a country or organization services its debts, it pays the interest on them.

If someone or something services an organization, a project, or a group of people, they provide it with the things that it needs in order to function properly or effectively.

To be at the service of a person or organization means to be available to help or be used by that person or organization.

You can use 'at your service' after your name as a formal way of introducing yourself to someone and saying that you are willing to help them in any way you can.

If you do someone a service, you do something that helps or benefits them.

If a piece of equipment or type of vehicle is in service, it is being used or is able to be used. If it is out of service, it is not being used, usually because it is not working properly.

If someone or something is of service to you, they help you or are useful to you.