service
Definition of service:
part of speech: noun
Labour, physical or mental, performed in course of duty, or for the benefit of another; obedience; religious rites or worship; public worship; employment; use; purpose; advantage; official duties of a clergyman; the performance of duty in the army or navy; a benefit conferred; a course, as of dishes at table; a collection of vessels used at table; among seamen, the layers of spun yarn fastened round a rope to protect it from friction.
Usage examples:
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There was quite time to call and ask if the Miss Wodehouses were going down to the service this afternoon; but was it duty?
Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant in "The Perpetual Curate". -
But in the service of my country.
Oliver Optic in "A Lieutenant at Eighteen". -
Why, man, you did a splendid service
Bertram Mitford in "Harley Greenoak's Charge". -
Do you want money, mother, for this service
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr in "The Measure of a Man".