Service

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 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, serving in a country's armed forces
 * 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), 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), 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, 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
 * 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 North American Lutheran churches
 * Salah, Islamic prayer routine. Friday Prayer, Congregational prayer service
 * 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

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

 * A collection of matching tableware:
 * Tea service
 * 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 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
 * Universal basic services, a form of social security