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dis·serv·ice
/
dɪsˈsɜr
vɪs
/
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dis-
sur
-vis
]
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noun,
verb,
dis·serv·iced,
dis·serv·ic·ing.
noun
1.
harmful or injurious
service
; an ill turn.
verb (used with object)
2.
to provide inadequate or faulty
service
to:
Small shippers are most often disserviced by transportation breakdowns.
Origin:
1590–1600;
dis-
1
+
service
Related forms
self-dis·serv·ice,
noun
Synonyms
1.
wrong, hurt, harm, injury, unkindness.
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disservice
(dɪsˈsɜːvɪs)
—
n
an ill turn; wrong; injury, esp when trying to help
dis'serviceable
—
adj
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
disservice
1599, from dis- + service (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
So if you're clinging out of fear to a job you don't want, you're doing
yourself and the rest of us a
disservice
.
Misleading the non-scientific public on this does a great
disservice
.
Most of the people who were saying this shouldn't be allowed believed it had
the potential to do
disservice
or harm to students.
Climate change aside, biased scientists are doing a
disservice
to science.
To compare him with our icons is a
disservice
to us and to their memories.
Surely a failure of discrimination here is likely to do a real
disservice
to the major causes.
In the meantime, soldiers are being done a great
disservice
by not receiving the support they need.
Throwing more money at our nation's broken education system ignores reality and does a
disservice
to students and taxpayers.
Such sacralization is a
disservice
, smothering the critical dialogue that great literature engenders.
The amount of disinformation and distortion in the comments above does a real
disservice
to scientific integrity.
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"The discussion of the whole problem of technology ... has been strangely led astray through an all-too-exclusive concentration upon the service or
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