services 1 of 2

plural of service
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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

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Recent Examples of services
Verb
However, if an employee purchases eligible health care items or services during furlough, they can’t be reimbursed from a flexible spending account until the worker returns to pay status and payroll deductions can be made. Medora Lee, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025 No emergency services were reported to have been used to transport the ill on Thursday. Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025 Froedtert Hospital is a major provider of labor and delivery services in the Milwaukee area. Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025 To help buyers navigate the season, the salon’s conference program zoomed in on everything from generative AI to scaling bio-fashion, while new services included baggage check-in straight from the show. Ellen Groves, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025 Police were notified by child and family services after the infant was taken to a children's hospital with severe burns, KSL and KUTV reported. Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025 Spain is seeing growth in free streaming services usage, a space that sees YouTube as the dominant player. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025 No information about services was immediately available. Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025 Intelsat 10-02 and Intelsat 39 each provide C-band and Ku-band services across Europe and the Middle East, including Ukraine. Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for services
Noun
  • This makes county fairs almost like quasi-governmental organizations, said Ahlers of the Anoka County Fair, even though some of the privileges aren’t exactly practicable.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Hosting privileges rotate each time, with Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, New York, the arena for the 45th edition of the tournament after Rome’s Marco Simone Golf Club staged the 2023 contest.
    Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Gaza is decimated In Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says more than 66,000 people have been killed − about half of them women and children − and humanitarian agencies now warn of famine.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In November, researchers will head to the remote island of Nikumaroro, which is halfway between Australia and Hawaii, according to a joint press release from the two agencies.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The budget pressures departments to have state employees return to their offices instead of working at home as many have done since the 2020 pandemic.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Now, three days into the federal government showdown, California departments are also using their homepages to cast blame.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Major League Soccer is promoting Charles Altchek, considered by many to be a potential future commissioner, to oversee the group that aids clubs in their business efforts.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For a 12th year, nine cities on the tour will partner with the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, a non-profit organization that aids pediatric patients through entertainment and/or educational initiatives.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Most states pay benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • After that, both new and current WIC beneficiaries will start to see their benefits impacted, especially those in areas without state funds to supplement the loss of federal dollars, Hard said.
    Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The ground floor is home to the offices of creative director Gherardo Felloni and longtime brand ambassador Inès de la Fressange; the Salon de l’Héritage, an exhibition space and the Salon Vivier reception room, which reflects the distinctive interior design taste of the house’s founder.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The upper chamber also sent out a note to top staffers laying out shutdown guidance for Senate offices.
    Al Weaver, The Hill, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Leonora measures out her days in courtesies and slights, the former dominating the beginning of the book, the latter rapidly gaining ground.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, the credit bureaus have become a little more transparent, and countless services and information outlets have worked to crack and share the code.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Some services only report on-time, in-full rent payments to credit bureaus, while others might also report late payments, experts say.
    Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Services.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/services. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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