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SERVICE CLUB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does service club mean?
• SERVICE CLUB (noun)
The noun SERVICE CLUB has 2 senses:
1. a club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services
2. a recreational center for servicemen
Familiarity information: SERVICE CLUB used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A club of professional or business people organized for their coordination and active in public services
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("service club" is a kind of...):
club; gild; guild; lodge; order; social club; society (a formal association of people with similar interests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "service club"):
International Association of Lions clubs; Lions Club (club dedicated to promoting responsible citizenship and good government and community and national and international welfare)
Rotary Club; Rotary International (a group of businessmen in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A recreational center for servicemen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("service club" is a kind of...):
center; centre (a building dedicated to a particular activity)
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