I say I did him aservice by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.
1794,Robert Southey,Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: J[ohn] M‘Creery,[…] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,[…], published1817,→OCLC, Act I,page 7:
The Parliament for ever criesmore money, /Theservice of the state demands more money. / Just heaven! of whatservice is the state?
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature andservice and land knows what all.
The state of beingsubordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
The lesser griefs that may be said, / That breathe a thousand tender vows, / Are but as servants in a house / Where lies the master newly dead; / Who speak their feeling as it is, / And weep the fulness from the mind: / ‘It will be hard’ they say ‘to find / Anotherservice such as this.’
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offeringservices that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
Here, in the transept and choir, where theservice was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
1668 July 3,James Dalrymple, “Thomas Ruecontra Andrew Houſtoun” inThe Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683),page 548:
He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, thatThomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge toAdam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, andcorreus debendi, after the alleadgedService, which DiſchargedMuſhet, and conſequentlyHoustoun his Partner.
Theservice happened yesterday.
(Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) Ataxishared among unrelated passengers, each of whom payspart of thefare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
In British English, the indefinite articlea is often used with “good service”, as in "A good service is operating on all London Underground lines", whereas this is not used in American English.
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 28:07 from the start, inThe Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived fromthe original on3 November 2022:
The USSManila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3,services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time.
1977, Patricia Marshall,Citizen Participation Certification for Community Development, page107:
One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications.[…]Servicing the media should be an everyday thing.
1971,College and University Journal, volumes10-11, page 9:
[…] instead of expending so much of their PR effort onservicing the media.
(transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).
It continues to be laden with intense debtservicing costs.
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