Services
['sə:visis]
Definition
(noun.) performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others; 'the mayor tried to maintain city services'; 'the medical services are excellent'.
Typist: Vilma--From WordNet
Examples
- For the easy expression of public opinion in government is a clue to what services are needed and a test of their success. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His services, with rare exceptions, grow less valuable as he advances in age and nervous strain breaks him down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These services, therefore, being almost entirely arbitrary, subjected the tenant to many vexations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Lieutenant Grant offered his services, which were accepted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Fanny, cried Tom Bertram, from the other table, where the conference was eagerly carrying on, and the conversation incessant, we want your services. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In many points of detail the vassal's services differed widely in different parts of the feudal world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the rendering of those little services, and in the manner of their acceptance, the trooper has become installed as necessary to him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Pip is that hearty welcome, said Joe, to go free with his services, to honor and fortun', as no words can tell him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As soon as government begins to supply services, it is turning away from the sterile tyranny of the taboo. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When the services of a dentist are not at hand and the teeth are badly decayed and aching, the following mouth wash is recommended. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Selina, being my wife, couldn't charge for her board, and would have to give me her services for nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I mention it also, because I think some of our ship's company did not give him as full credit for his excellent services as he deserved. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For the loss of his services. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We procured the services of a gentleman experienced in the nomenclature of the American bar, and moved upon the works of one of these impostors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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