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
Brown and others had to vouch for their small community, to keep weekly services intact. — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026 For luxury hotels where the staff offers daily cleaning services and nightly turndown services, guests should leave a little more. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 July 2026 Participants in the civil proceedings can hire private stenographers to maintain a record of what’s said, but their services can run thousands of dollars a day. — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 As part of the merger, Station 41 in Newcastle has added new resources to provide advanced life support services. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026 Medicare, the federal insurance program, establishes prices for medical services. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 5 July 2026 Both Radia and Blue Water are particularly pitching their services to militaries and humanitarian aid efforts. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026 If there are no Apple App Store services in 2276, our historical iPhone 17 Pro has another insurmountable problem. — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026 Management cited its recent formal launch of FedEx Life Science, which provides specialized transportation services for the health-care industry, where packages can be both time- and temperature-sensitive, as well as accelerating growth in artificial intelligence. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for services
  1. privileges
  2. agencies
  3. conditions
  4. benefits
  5. departments
  6. aids
  7. courtesies
  8. offices
Noun
  • An ultra-secure cloud environment is useless if the identity management policy is lax or if access privileges are not reviewed on a strict need-to-know basis.
    — Vicente Pava, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Justices Thomas and Jackson focused in part on the court’s notorious 1857 decision called Dred Scott, which ruled a slave couldn’t be a citizen or claim the resultant rights and privileges.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Definition of privileges
Noun
  • Even though three public agencies conducted air monitoring, the picture is still murky.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • For advertisers and agencies worn down by years of incremental tooling, that is the difference between a feature and a step change.
    — Phoena Pang, Forbes.com, 1 July 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
  • On Tuesday, the State Controller’s Office reported that California’s net liability for state retirees’ health and dental benefits is estimated to be $78 billion, which is down $14 billion from last year’s estimate.
    — William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • Paramount has repeatedly touted the benefits of the transaction, and Ellison has attempted to reassure Hollywood’s creative community by promising to put 30 movies a year in theaters.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 30 June 2026
Definition of benefits
Noun
  • Supporters hail the move as bringing accountability and coherence — through the governor — to all the departments and agencies involved in education.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Cody Hess, an associate government program analyst for the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, said these differences in departments’ needs for in-person meetings make a sweeping return-to-office order unnecessary.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of departments
Verb
  • Furthermore, current jobs, even if not ideal, can fund these personal pursuits, fostering a positive outlook that ultimately aids career progression.
    — Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • These can help keep the right amount of chlorine in your pool, which aids in sanitation and keeping algae at bay.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 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
  • Our real estate data comes from public records that have been registered and digitized by local county offices.
    — Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
  • LeVota signed the executive order on July 4, while all of Jackson County’s municipal government offices were closed for the holiday.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
Definition of offices

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