Service may refer to:

Activities

  • Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty
  • Civil service, the body of employees of a government
  • Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court
  • Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans
  • Feudal service, see Feudal land tenure in England
  • Funeral or memorial service
  • Military service, serving in a country's armed forces
  • Public service, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good
  • Selfless service, a service which is performed without any expectation of result or award

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Service (album), a 1983 album by Yellow Magic Orchestra
  • Service (film), a 2008 film
  • Service (play), a 1932 play by British writer Dodie Smith
  • Service (record label), a Swedish record label
  • "Service" (The Walking Dead), a 2016 television episode of The Walking Dead
  • The Service, an 1840 essay by Henry David Thoreau
  • "Service", a song from the album Silver Sun by Silver Sun

Economics and business

  • Service (business), an aggregation of a service engagement with one or more service acts between two or more service systems creating service outcomes
  • Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within a service–product continuum
  • Service economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy
  • Service sector, the traditional tertiary sector of the economy, including:
  • Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
  • Domestic service, employment in a residence
  • Table service, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers
  • Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including:
  • Service design
  • Service management
  • Services marketing
  • Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
  • Service-level agreement
  • Managed services
  • Outsourcing
  • Service provider, third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations
  • Rest area, where drivers and passengers take a pause from driving
  • Motorway service area, also called services in the United Kingdom

Religion

  • Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
  • Divine Service (Lutheran), the Eucharistic liturgy as used in the various Lutheran churches
  • Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Service (music), a musical setting of certain parts of the liturgy
  • Service (Tenrikyo), a prayer ritual in Tenrikyo
  • The son of man came to serve, a saying of Jesus

Technology

Computing and telecommunications

  • Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
  • Service layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture
  • Service-oriented architecture (SOA), a design pattern in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network
  • Service, the function provided by a server (computing)
  • Service, local implementations in software:
  • Service, a program in the services menu under macOS that processes selected data
  • Daemon (computing), a background computer program in Unix
  • Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system
  • Network service
  • Radiocommunication service, according to ITU Radio Regulations (RR) Article 1.19
  • Telecommunications service, including:
  • Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
  • Software as a service (SaaS)
  • Web hosting service
  • Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
  • Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
  • Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
  • GSM services

Other uses in technology

  • Service (motor vehicle), maintenance procedures carried out after a vehicle has traveled a certain distance
  • Building services engineering
  • Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code

Other uses

  • A collection of matching tableware:
  • Tea service
  • Dinner service
  • Cabaret service
  • Servant leadership, leadership reconceptualized as service to those below
  • Service (surname)
  • Service, Missouri, a community in the United States
  • Empire Service (1943–1961), one of the Empire ships in service of the British government
  • Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis
  • Service High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska
  • Service of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
  • Services football team, an Indian club representing the Armed Services
  • Sorbus domestica (Service Tree), a species of tree
  • Universal basic services, a form of social security

See also

  • Altruism, a principle or practice of caring for the welfare of others
  • Goods and services
  • Servant (disambiguation)
  • Server (disambiguation)
  • Volunteering, action taken to benefit others for no benefit to the one performing the action