Collocations for "services"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "services" in context.
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service
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [customer, technical] service
- a [customer] service [agent, line, number]
- [after, post] -sales service
- [legal, financial, brokerage, banking] services
- a [personalized, tailored, special] service
- [poor, good, reasonable, excellent, outstanding] service
- the [restaurant, hotel, resort] had [poor] service
- a good [level, quality] of service
- [bus, train, subway, underground] services
- a [regular, better, reduced] [bus] service
- [regular, normal] service will resume on [Monday]
- a [once, twice] -hourly service
- a [computer, car, TV] repair service
- a wide [option, choice, range] of services
- the hotel was [rewarded, recommended, praised] for its service
- [maintain, uphold, sustain, achieve, offer] excellent service
- [rate, judge, review] the (level of) service
- my [car, motorbike, van] needs a service
- can I be of (any) service (to you)?
- at your service!
- service with a smile
- died in the service of their country
- service [staff, industries, facilities]
- the service [quality, rating, review, performance]
- [in, through] the service hatch
- in the service area
- at the service counter
- at a service station
- a full-service [massage, carwash]
- a self-service [counter, buffet, restaurant]
- service your [car, air conditioner, washing machine]
- have your [car] serviced
- service and [maintain, repair]
- serviced [once a year, every 12 months, annually, regularly]
- [adequately, poorly] serviced
- servicing the [community, neighborhood, city] of
- service an [office, apartment]
- sexually explicit: he was servicing her
'services' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Jewish
- academic
- account
- add
- administrative
- adult
- advisory
- ancillary
- appliance
- array
- associated
- attendant
- automation
- banking
- barter
- beauty
- bill
- billing
- broadcasting
- brokerage
- bundle
- campus
- care
- child
- city
- client
- cluster
- coaching
- collection
- communication
- complement
- computing
- consultancy
- consultant
- consultation
- consulting
- corporate
- debt
- design
- desktop
- disposal
- disrupt
- disruption
- dwelling
- educational
- effect
- elderly
- elevator
- embassy
- emergency