Service Explained

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

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 contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
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

Church service, Christian communal worship, often held in a church building
Divine Service (Lutheran), the public worship of North American Lutheran churches
Salah, Islamic prayer routine. Friday Prayer, Congregational prayer service
Service (music), musical settings for sections of a service of worship
Service (Tenrikyo), the liturgy of the Tenrikyo religion
Son of man came to serve, concerning Jesus

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

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

A collection of matching tableware:
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