Service may refer to:

Activities

Administrative Administration may refer to: Management of organizations * Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal ** Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an administrative officer, administ ...

service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, 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 without any form of compensation. Community service can be distinct from volunteering, since it is not always performe ...

, 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 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) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription). Some nations (e.g., Mexico) require ...

, serving in a country's armed forces * Feudal service, see

Feudal land tenure in England Under the English feudal system several different forms of land tenure existed, each effectively a contract with differing rights and duties attached thereto. Such tenures could be either free-hold, signifying that they were hereditable or perpet ...

Public service A public service is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community. Public services are available to people within a government jurisdiction as provided directly through public sector agencies ...

, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good *

Selfless service Selfless may refer to: * Selflessness, the act of sacrificing one's own interest for the greater good ** Selfless service * ''Selfless'' (album), a 1994 album by English industrial metal band Godflesh *'' Self/less'', a 2015 film starring Ryan Rey ...

, 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

Economics and business

Service (business) Business services are a recognisable subset of 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 their customers and to a ...

, an aggregation of a service engagement with one or more service acts between two or more service systems creating service outcomes * Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within a service–product continuum **

Service economy Service economy can refer to one or both of two recent economic developments: * The increased importance of the service sector in industrialized economies. The current list of Fortune 500 companies contains more service companies and fewer manu ...

, 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 people who buy or use its products or services. Each industry requires different levels of customer service, but in the end, the idea of a well-performed service is that ...

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

Religion

* Church service, 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, 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, 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), a background computer program in Unix ** Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system * Network service * ''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 (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, leadership reconceptualized as service to those below * Service (surname) * Service, Missouri, a community in the United States * Empire ''Service'' (1943–1961), one of the List of Empire ships (Sa–Sh)#Empire Service, 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, 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