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• service — ▪ I. service ser‧vice 1 [ˈsɜːvs ǁ ˈsɜːr ] noun 1. [countable usually plural] COMMERCE business that involves selling help and advice, or delivering goods etc for customers, rather than manufacturing goods: • He charged a £600,000 fee for… …   Financial and business terms

• service — [[t]sɜ͟ː(r)vɪs[/t]] ♦ services, servicing, serviced (For meaning 14, services is both the singular and the plural form.) 1) N COUNT: usu with supp A service is something that the public needs, such as transport, communications facilities,… …   English dictionary

• service — / sɜ:vɪs/ noun 1. a piece of work done to help someone as a duty or a favour ● After a lifetime’s service to the company he was rewarded with a generous golden handshake. 2. a form of business (e.g. insurance, banking, or transport) that provides …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• Service-oriented architecture — (SOA) is a method for systems development and integration where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services . SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data… …   Wikipedia

• Service of process — is the procedure employed to give legal notice to a person (such as a defendant) of a court or administrative body s exercise of its jurisdiction over that person so as to enable that person to respond to the proceeding before the court, body or… …   Wikipedia

• Service Oriented Programming — (SOP) is a programming paradigm that uses services as the unit of computer work, to design and implement integrated business applications and mission critical software programs. Services can represent steps of business processes and thus one of… …   Wikipedia

• Service life — A product s service life is its expected lifetime, or the acceptable period of use in service. It is the time that any manufactured item can be expected to be serviceable or supported by its manufacturer. Expected service life consists of… …   Wikipedia

• Service delivery platform — The term Service Delivery Platform (SDP) usually refers to a set of components that provide a service’s delivery architecture (such as service creation, session control protocols) for a type of service. There is no standard definition of SDP in… …   Wikipedia

• service — 1 noun FOR THE PUBLIC 1 public services (countable often plural) things such as education, hospitals, banks etc that are provided for the public to use: the decline in public services in recent times | the welfare/medical/social etc service… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• MILITARY SERVICE — Jews served in the national armies of most countries in which they settled. However, in many states they were denied the right to bear arms before the 20th century since they were considered to be second class citizens, not fit to fight for their …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• British Columbia Ambulance Service — Infobox company company name = British Columbia Ambulance Service company company type = Crown Agency foundation = July 1, 1974 location = British Columbia, Canada num employees = 3,200 (2006) revenue = $252 Million industry = Emergency Medical… …   Wikipedia