services 1 of 2

noun

plural of service
1
as in privileges
an act of kind assistance performed many services for the charitable organization

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2
as in agencies
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization the OSS, the nation's wartime intelligence service

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services

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verb

present tense third-person singular of service
as in conditions

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Recent Examples of services
Noun
States have already started slashing caregivers’ pay and other critical disability services in anticipation of Medicaid cuts that will roll out next year. — STAT, 2 Oct. 2026 Rent now, pay later services are one form, which break rent into multiple payments. — Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 Regulations introduced a year ago require mines to source a higher share of core goods and services locally. — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Sybiha said Ukraine is requesting some 300 Patriot missiles from partner countries because intelligence services estimate that Russia is holding 600 ballistic missiles in reserve and can produce up to 140 ballistic missiles per month. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 Healthcare, buoyed by an aging population in need of more medical services, has driven much of the employment gains in recent years and continued to do so in September. — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026 Qure Shipping Policy Qure currently ships worldwide, and packages are shipped via FedEx, USPS, or DHL courier with standard shipping services. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2026 The September report doesn't show widespread job cuts, although financial services and government shed workers. — Scott Horsley, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026 Days passed without the administration providing Impacted Party 1 any traditional support services, that would have included time off. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for services
  1. privileges
  2. agencies
  3. conditions
  4. benefits
  5. departments
  6. aids
  7. courtesies
  8. offices
Noun
  • Lawmakers, anti-corruption activists and watchdog groups have urged authorities to identify which prisoners occupied the facilities and whether prison officials accepted payments in exchange for the privileges.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • During this process, attackers often attempt to escalate privileges, discover additional assets and expand their access throughout the environment.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of privileges
Noun
  • The Fed has long blamed a range of factors for the cost overruns, including a spike in inflation, unexpected expenses such as asbestos remediation, and additional demands from review agencies.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The other, Patrick McHenry, was in Congress for 20 years and helped craft export controls on surveillance technologies that could benefit China’s military or intelligence agencies.
    — Patrick McHenry, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of agencies
Verb
  • The system conditions physicians to go above and beyond, to pre-round an hour before they're asked, to absorb expanding workloads without complaint, because that's what doctors do.
    — Kwame Christian Esq, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The discomfort stems not from graphic imagery, but from recognition — the realization that contemporary visual culture increasingly conditions audiences through loops of deferred resolution.
    — Andrew S. Jacobson, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2026
Definition of conditions
Noun
  • The costs from climate change will be so extortionate and the economic value losses so devastating that, in the final wash of the cost-benefit analysis, the benefits of mitigation outweigh the costs.
    — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Such athletes may still practice with women’s teams and receive certain benefits associated with practicing.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of benefits
Noun
  • Her departure is not related to a round of layoffs that hit Disney this week; those cuts came primarily in the company’s tech and human resources departments.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Representatives for North Texas law enforcement agencies, including federal departments, shared Tuesday afternoon that 19 people have been indicted following the breakup of a drug trafficking organization.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of departments
Verb
  • This step introduces air into the eggs, which aids in leavening and keeps the blondies from baking up too dense.
    — Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The absence of the SLC women and their tension with Barlow aids the convivial atmosphere, but Lisa isn’t completely safe from a whacking.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of aids
Noun
  • Small courtesies keep big efforts moving forward.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • With both courtesies and catastrophes refusing to conform, the canton’s school board, publishers, and clergy were forced to produce multiple editions of primers, textbooks, and catechisms; sometimes five parallel print runs were needed for a population the size of a town.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
Definition of courtesies
Noun
  • Crews went floor to floor, hitting individual cubicles, offices and even coordinating with a restaurant also housed in the building.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Kyiv is split in half by the Dnipro River, with the right bank home to the majority of the city’s business centers, offices and government institutions.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of offices

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“Services.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/services. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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