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 service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership. A civil service offic ...

, the body of employees of a government *

Community service Community service is unpaid work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community contributing to a noble cause. In many cases, people doing community service are compensated in other ways, such as gettin ...

, 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 * Feudal service, see Feudal land tenure in England * Funeral or memorial service *

Military service Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, air forces, and naval forces, whether as a chosen job (volunteer military, volunteer) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription). Few nations, such ...

, serving in a country's armed forces *

Public service A public service or service of general (economic) interest is any service intended to address the needs of aggregate members of a community, whether provided directly by a public sector agency, via public financing available to private busin ...

, 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), a Swedish record label * "Service" (''The Walking Dead''), a 2016 television episode of ''The Walking Dead'' * '' The Service'', an 1840 essay by Henry David Thoreau * "Service", a song from the album '' Silver Sun'' by Silver Sun

Economics and business

Service (business) Business services are a recognisable subset of Service (economics), economic services, and share their characteristics. The essential difference is that businesses are concerned about the building of service systems in order to deliver value to the ...

, 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 act or use for which a consumer, company, or government is willing to payment, pay. Examples include work done by barbers, doctors, lawyers, mechanics, banks, insurance companies, and so on. Public services are those that society ...

, 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 The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the seco ...

, including: ***

Customer service Customer service is the assistance and advice provided by a company to those who buy or use its products or services, either in person or remotely. Customer service is often practiced in a way that reflects the strategies and values of a firm, and ...

, provision of assistance to customers or clients ***

Domestic service A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly ...

, employment in a residence ***

Table service The foodservice (US English) or catering (British and Commonwealth English) Industry (economics), industry includes the businesses, institutions, and companies which prepare meals outside the home. It includes restaurants, grocery stores, school ...

, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers **

Service system A service system (also customer service system (CSS)) is a configuration of technology and organizational networks designed to deliver services that satisfy the needs, wants, or aspirations of customers. "Service system" is a term used in the s ...

, or customer service system (CSS), including: ***

Service design Service design is the activity of planning and arranging people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality, and the interaction between the service provider and its users. Service design m ...

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Service management Service management in the manufacturing context, is integrated into supply chain management as the intersection between the actual sales and the customer point of view. The aim of high-performance service management is to optimize the service- ...

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Services marketing Services marketing is a specialized branch of marketing which emerged as a separate field of study in the early 1980s, following the recognition that the unique characteristics of Service (economics), services required different strategies compa ...

Service contract (disambiguation) Service contract may refer to: * employment contract * extended warranty * Metropolitan Bus Service Contract * ''Programmatic service contract'' in service-oriented architecture ** standardized service contract - software design principle * w ...

, with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system: **

Service-level agreement A service-level agreement (SLA) is an agreement between a service provider and a customer. Particular aspects of the service – quality, availability, responsibilities – are agreed between the service provider and the service user. T ...

Managed services Managed services is the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the ...

Outsourcing Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally. Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another ...

Service provider A service provider (SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations. Although a service provider can be a sub-unit of the organization t ...

, third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations *

Rest area A rest area is a public facility located next to a large thoroughfare such as a motorway, Limited-access road, expressway, or highway, at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or refuel without exiting onto secondary roads. Other names ...

, where drivers and passengers take a pause from driving * Motorway service area, also called services in the United Kingdom

Religion

Church service A church service (or a worship service) is a formalized period of Christian communal Christian worship, worship, often held in a Church (building), church building. Most Christian denominations hold church services on the Lord's Day (offering Su ...

, a formalized period of Christian communal worship **

Divine Service (Lutheran) The Divine Service () is a title given to the Eucharistic liturgy as used in Confessional Lutheranism, Confessional Lutheran churches and organizations of North America. It has its roots in the Pre-Tridentine Mass as revised by Martin Luther in ...

, the Eucharistic liturgy as used in the various Lutheran churches ** Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Service (music), a musical setting of certain parts of the liturgy * Service (Tenrikyo), a prayer ritual in Tenrikyo * The son of man came to serve, a saying of Jesus

Technology

Computing and telecommunications

Service (systems architecture) In the contexts of software architecture, service-orientation and service-oriented architecture, the term service refers to a software functionality, or a set of software functionalities (such as the retrieval of specified information or the e ...

, the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment: ** Service layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture **

Service-oriented architecture In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. SOA is a good choice for system integration. By consequence, it is also applied in the field ...

(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) A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called " clients" on a computer network. This architecture is called the client–server model. Servers can provide various functionalities, often called "services", such as sh ...

* Service, local implementations in software: ** Service, a program in the

services menu The Services menu (or simply Services) is a user interface element in macOS. The services are programs that accept input from the user selection, process it, and optionally put the result back in the clipboard. The concept originated in the NeXTST ...

under macOS that processes selected data **

Daemon (computing) In computing, a daemon is a program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Customary convention is to name a daemon process with the letter ''d'' as a suffix to indicate that it's ...

, a background computer program in Unix **

Windows service In Windows NT operating systems, a Windows service is a computer program that operates in the background. It is similar in concept to a Unix daemon. A Windows service must conform to the interface rules and protocols of the Service Control Manag ...

, 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 layer and above, that provides data storage, manipulation, presentation, communication or other capability which is often implemented using a client–server or pe ...

* ''Radiocommunication service'', according to

ITU Radio Regulations The ITU Radio Regulations (RR) is a basic document of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that regulates on law of nations scale radiocommunication services and the utilisation of radio frequencies. It is the supplementation to th ...

(RR) ''Article 1.19'' *

Telecommunications service A telecommunications company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many t ...

, including: ** Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks **

Software as a service Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike o ...

(SaaS) **

Web hosting service A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients, i.e. it offers the facilities required for them to create and maintain a site and makes it accessible on the World Wide Web. Companies providing web h ...

Web service A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

, a software system to support interaction over a network *

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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 mobile telecom networks. It allows operators to differentiate themselves by providing ...

(IN), for telecommunications *** GSM services

Other uses in technology

Service (motor vehicle) A motor vehicle service or tune-up is a series of maintenance procedures carried out at a set time interval or after the vehicle has traveled a certain distance. The service intervals are specified by the vehicle manufacturer in a service schedule ...

, maintenance procedures carried out after a vehicle has traveled a certain distance *

Building services engineering Building services engineering (BSE), service engineering or facilities and services planning engineering is a Regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that strives to achieve a safe and comfortable Indoor air qu ...

* Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code

Other uses

* A collection of matching tableware: **

Tea service A tea set or tea service is a collection of matching teaware and related utensils used in the preparation and serving of tea. The traditional components of a tea set may vary between societies and cultures. History China The accepted his ...

** Dinner service ** Cabaret service * Servant leadership, leadership reconceptualized as service to those below * Service (surname) * Service, Missouri, a community in the United States * Empire ''Service'' (1943–1961), one of the

Empire ships An Empire ship is a merchant ship that was given a name beginning with "Empire" in the service of the Government of the United Kingdom during and after World War II. Most were used by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), which owned them and co ...

in service of the British government *

Serve (tennis) A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point. A player will hit the ball with a racquet so it will fall into the diagonally opposite service box without being stopped by the net. Normally players begin a serve by ...

or service, a shot to start a point in tennis * Service High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska *

Service of process Each legal jurisdiction has rules and discrete terminology regarding the appropriate procedures for serving legal documents on a person being sued or subject to legal proceedings. In the U.S. legal system, service of process is the procedure ...

, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition * Services football team, an Indian club representing the Armed Services * '' Sorbus domestica'' (''Service Tree''), a species of tree *

Universal basic services Universal basic services (UBS) is an idea of a form of social security in which all citizens or residents of a community, region, or country receive unconditional access to a range of free, basic, public services, funded by taxpayers and provided ...

, a form of social security