What does service mean?

Definition

To check, clean and repair a machine or a vehicle where needed so that it keeps working well.

Example sentences

• We haven't had the AC serviced in three years, and you can tell from the smell.🔊

  We haven't had the AC serviced in three years, and you can tell from the smell.

• I keep putting off getting the car serviced, and now it makes a funny noise every time I brake.🔊

  I keep putting off getting the car serviced, and now it makes a funny noise every time I brake.

• Where's car twelve? In the garage, they're servicing the brakes.🔊

  Where's car twelve? In the garage, they're servicing the brakes.

Related words

service in other languages

• In Portuguese
• In French
• In Japanese