/ˈsɜːvɪs/
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Translation
The help that staff give to customers in a shop, a hotel, or a restaurant.
Word origin
From Latin servitium, meaning the work of a servant.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- servitium
- English cognates
- serve, servant
Grammar
Gender
Pluralservices
Examples
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Here "service" is how the staff look after you.
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A "service" can also be a job a company does for you.
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In this sense "service" is uncountable.
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