SERVICES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does services mean? 

• SERVICES (noun)
  The noun SERVICES has 1 sense:

1. performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others

  Familiarity information: SERVICES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERVICES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the medical services are excellent

Hypernyms ("services" is a kind of...):

employment; work (the occupation for which you are paid)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

It advises the NIH Deputy Director for Management and delivery of technical and administrative services in support of the NIH research mission.

(Office of Research Services, NCI Thesaurus)

The NCI EVS is set of services and resources that address NCI's needs for controlled vocabulary.

(NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services, NCI Thesaurus)

A questionnaire that seeks information both on a person's level of functioning and on their need and utilization of services.

(Older Americans Resource Scale Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

And, she added, I am obliged to you for your valuable services and discreet conduct!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The study of the end results of health services, with the intention of providing scientific evidence relating to the value of the decisions made by all who participate in the health care process.

(Outcomes Research, NCI Thesaurus)

A shared facility providing biostatistical services.

(Biostatistics Core, NCI Thesaurus)

Those facilities which administer health services to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization.

(Ambulatory Care Facility, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt suggests that we may be witnessing ecosystem shifts in our ocean that could have important implications for marine organisms and ecosystem services, which humans depend on.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

Stigma is part of the reason why mental health services are not well developed in many countries, the report said.

(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)

"Biodiversity allows ecosystems to maintain services when the environment changes," says Mike Sieracki, a program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences.

(Galapagos sea life study highlights importance of biodiversity in the face of climate change, National Science Foundation)