Service

Service may refer to:

Activities

Altruism, a principle or practice of caring for the welfare of others
Administrative service, a part of the work load 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
Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
Domestic service, employment in a residence
Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans
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
Table service, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers
Volunteering, action taken to benefit others for no benefit to the one performing the action

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 continum
- 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 economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy
- Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including:
Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
Service provider, third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations

The function provided by a server (computing)
Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
- 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 layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture
Local implementations in software:
- Daemon (computing), a background computer program in Unix
- Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system
- A program in the Services menu under macOS that processes selected data
Network service
Telecommunications service, including:
- Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
- Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
- Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
  - GSM services
- Web hosting service
- Software as a service (SaaS)
Radiocommunication service, according to ITU Radio Regulations (RR) Article 1.19

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

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 of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
Service Tree (Sorbus domestica), a species of tree
Service Shoes, a shoe brand of Pakistan