Service may refer to:

Activities

* Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty *

Civil service The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court * Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans * Military service, serving in a country's armed forces * Feudal service, see Feudal land tenure in England * Public service, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good * Selfless service, a service which is performed without any expectation of result or award.

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Service'' (album), a 1983 album by Yellow Magic Orchestra * ''Service'' (film), a 2008 film * ''Service'' (play), a 1932 play by British writer Dodie Smith *

Service (record label) Service was an independent record label formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in December 2001 by Ola Borgström together with Dan Lissvik. In 2012 Borgström announced that the label would stop issuing new material."Service" (''The Walking Dead''), a 2016 television episode of ''The Walking Dead'' * ''

The Service ''The Service'' is an essay written in 1840 by Henry David Thoreau. He submitted it to ''The Dial'' for publication, but they declined to print it. It was not published until after Thoreau's death. The essay uses war and military discipline ...

'', an 1840 essay by Henry David Thoreau

Economics and business

* Service (business), an aggregation of a service engagement with one or more service acts between two or more service systems creating service outcomes *

Service (economics) A service is an "(intangible) act or use for which a consumer, firm, or government is willing to pay." Examples include work done by barbers, doctors, lawyers, mechanics, banks, insurance companies, and so on. Public services are those that so ...

, the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within a service–product continuum ** Service economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy ** Service sector, the traditional tertiary sector of the economy, including: *** Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients *** Domestic service, employment in a residence *** Table service, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers ** Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including: *** Service design *** Service management *** Services marketing * Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system: ** Service-level agreement ** Managed services **

Outsourcing Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and ...

* Service provider, third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations * Motorway service area, also called services in the United Kingdom

Religion

Church service A church service (or a service of worship) is a formalized period of Christian communal worship, often held in a church building. It often but not exclusively occurs on Sunday, or Saturday in the case of those churches practicing seventh-day Sa ...

, Christian communal worship, often held in a church building * Divine Service (Lutheran), the public worship of Lutheran churches * Service (music), musical settings for sections of a service of worship * Service (Tenrikyo), the liturgy of the Tenrikyo religion * Son of man came to serve, concerning Jesus *

Dharma Dharma (; sa, धर्म, dharma, ; pi, dhamma, italic=yes) is a key concept with multiple meanings in Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and others. Although there is no direct single-word translation for '' ...

, Buddhist doctrine of service and interconnectedness ** Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva, a form of servant leadership within Dharmic practice

Technology

Computing and telecommunications

* Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment: **

Service layer In intelligent networks (IN) and cellular networks, service layer is a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture. It aims at providing middleware that serves third-party value-added services and applications at a higher a ...

, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture ** Service-oriented architecture (SOA), a design pattern in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network * Service, the function provided by a server (computing) * Service, local implementations in software: ** Service, a program in the services menu under macOS that processes selected data **

Daemon (computing) In computer multitasking, multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon ( or ) is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Traditionally, the process names of a ...

, a background computer program in Unix ** Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system *

Network service In computer networking, a network service is an application running at the network application layer and above, that provides data storage, manipulation, presentation, communication or other capability which is often implemented using a client� ...

* ''Radiocommunication service'', according to ITU Radio Regulations (RR) ''Article 1.19'' * Telecommunications service, including: ** Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks ** Software as a service (SaaS) ** Web hosting service ** Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network * Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including: ** Services of an

Intelligent Network The Intelligent Network (IN) is the standard network architecture specified in the ITU-T Q.1200 series recommendations. It is intended for fixed as well as Global System for Mobile Communications, mobile telecommunication, telecom networks. It al ...

(IN), for telecommunications *** GSM services

Other uses in technology

* Service (motor vehicle), maintenance procedures carried out after a vehicle has traveled a certain distance * Building services engineering * Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code

Other uses

Servant leadership Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which the goal of the leader is to serve. This is different from traditional leadership where the leader's main focus is the thriving of their company or organization. A servant leader shares powe ...

, leadership reconceptualized as service to those below * Service (surname) *

Service, Missouri Service is an unincorporated community in eastern Crawford County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located on a small tributary along the east bank of Courtois Creek, approximately 2.5 miles west of the Crawford-Washington county lin ...

, a community in the United States * Empire ''Service'' (1943–1961), one of the Empire ships in service of the British government * Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis * Service High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska *

Service of process Service of process is the procedure by which a party to a lawsuit gives an appropriate notice of initial legal action to another party (such as a defendant), court, or administrative body in an effort to exercise jurisdiction over that person s ...

, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition *

Services (football team) Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a pu ...

, an Indian club representing the Armed Services * '' Sorbus domestica'' (''Service Tree''), a species of tree