Meaning of public service | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A service performed for the public good.
   countable, uncountable
2. A service such as health care, transport, or waste removal provided to the general public, often by the government.
   countable
3. The organisation, department or business providing such a service.
   countable
4. Government employment, especially in the civil service.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“They feel that public service is a noble calling that calls for every citizen in one way or another.”

“They provide counseling as a public service.”

“This has been a public service announcement from the Advertising Council.”

“A Hypocrite may put on the World in many specious Duties, to the Ruin of the Public, but never can be a Condidate^([sic]) for Fame, without doing a Public Service, a general Good ev’n by the very Hypocrisy […]”

“In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]”

“In spite of more than three decades of public service, I knew I was an unknown quantity to many of my countrymen and to much of the world when I assumed office.”

“We know that there are people in much lower offices in public service who adhere to those principles without question and without problems. Does my right hon. Friend find it regrettable that the Prime Minister does not?”

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