service
/ˈsɝ.vɪs/ verb B1- To serve. · They service the customer base.
- To perform maintenance. · He is going to service the car.
- To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
- To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt). · It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs.
- To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- To perform a sexual act upon. · He serviced her several times a week.
- To attack. · to service a target· target servicing
He/she/it services · Past serviced · Past participle serviced · -ing form servicing
Verb forms
- Base form
- service
- He/she/it
- services
- Past
- serviced
- Past participle
- serviced
- -ing form
- servicing
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We performed the usual burial service, and he is at his rest, sewn up in his hammock with a thirty-six-pound shot at his head and his heels, off El Giglio island.
Morrel,” said Dantès, approaching, “the vessel now rides at anchor, and I am at your service.
“And a first-rate seaman, one who had seen long and honorable service, as became a man charged with the interests of a house so important as that of Morrel & Son,” replied Danglars.
Come, father” added Dantès, “put this money back in your box—unless neighbor Caderousse wants anything, and in that case it is at his service.”
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