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public service

noun

the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
government employment; civil service.
a service to the public rendered without charge by a profit-making organization:
This radio program has been brought to you as a public service.

public service

1. government employment
2. the management and administration of the affairs of a political unit, esp the civil service
1. a service provided for the community
  buses provide a public service
2. ( as modifier )
  a public-service announcement
the service responsible for the public administration of the government of a country. It excludes the legislative, judicial, and military branches. Members of the public service have no official political allegiance and are not generally affected by changes of governments British equivalentcivil service

First recorded in 1560–70

Law-enforcement agencies at all levels of government provide a valuable and often thankless public service in their communities.

While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.

Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.

“Hurting others or destroying property is not the answer,” the elder Brown had said last week in a public-service video.

I just came from a ceremony that celebrated pre-vets day down at Arizona Public Service—20 percent of their employees are vets.

A railroad corporation, though performing a public service, nevertheless is a private corporation.

This contempt for the masses they cherish until they have to descend from Parnassus and enter the public service.

He had been ordered by the Commissioners of the Excise to pay ten thousand pounds into the Exchequer for the public service.

The estates of such men would soon have been considered as a fund applicable to the public service.

His last public service was performed in the defence of Hamburgh, where he was lieutenant governor.

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