# Service

Service may refer to:

## Activities

* Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty
* Civil service, the body of employees of a government
* Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a punishment that may be imposed by a court
* Fan service, a Japanese term referring to something which is specifically designed to entertain fans
* Feudal service, see Feudal land tenure in England
* Funeral or memorial service
* Military service, serving in a country's armed forces
* Public service, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good
* Selfless service, a service which is performed without any expectation of result or award

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* Service (album), a 1983 album by Yellow Magic Orchestra
* Service (film), a 2008 film
* Service (play), a 1932 play by British writer Dodie Smith
* Service (record label), a Swedish record label
* "Service" (The Walking Dead), a 2016 television episode of The Walking Dead
* The Service, an 1840 essay by Henry David Thoreau
* "Service", a song from the album Silver Sun by Silver Sun

## Economics and business

* Service (business), an aggregation of a service engagement with one or more service acts between two or more service systems creating service outcomes
* Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing, within a service–product continuum
** Service economy, which increases the integration of services in other sectors of the economy
** Service sector, the traditional tertiary sector of the economy, including:
*** Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
*** Domestic service, employment in a residence
*** Table service, food served by waiters and waitresses, also known as servers
** Service system, or customer service system (CSS), including:
*** Service design
*** Service management
*** Services marketing
* Service contract (disambiguation), with various levels of management, relations or integration in a service system:
** Service-level agreement
** Managed services
** Outsourcing
* Service provider, third party or outsourced suppliers for organizations
* Rest area, where drivers and passengers take a pause from driving
* Motorway service area, also called services in the United Kingdom

## Religion

* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
** Divine Service (Lutheran), the Eucharistic liturgy as used in the various Lutheran churches
** Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Service (music), a musical setting of certain parts of the liturgy
* Service (Tenrikyo), a prayer ritual in Tenrikyo
* The son of man came to serve, a saying of Jesus

## Technology
### Computing and telecommunications

* Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment:
** Service layer, a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture
** Service-oriented architecture (SOA), a design pattern in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network
* Service, the function provided by a server (computing)
* Service, local implementations in software:
** Service, a program in the services menu under macOS that processes selected data
** Daemon (computing), a background computer program in Unix
** Windows service, a background computer process belonging to no user in a Microsoft Windows system
* Network service
* Radiocommunication service, according to ITU Radio Regulations (RR) Article 1.19
* Telecommunications service, including:
** Internet Relay Chat services (IRC), a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
** Software as a service (SaaS)
** Web hosting service
** Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
* Value-added service or content service provided by communication service provider (CSP), including:
** Services of an Intelligent Network (IN), for telecommunications
*** GSM services

### Other uses in technology

* Service (motor vehicle), maintenance procedures carried out after a vehicle has traveled a certain distance
* Building services engineering
* Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code

## Other uses

* A collection of matching tableware:
** Tea service
** Dinner service
** Cabaret service
* Servant leadership, leadership reconceptualized as service to those below
* Service (surname)
* Service, Missouri, a community in the United States
* Empire Service (1943–1961), one of the Empire ships in service of the British government
* Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis
* Service High School, a public high school in Anchorage, Alaska
* Service of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
* Services football team, an Indian club representing the Armed Services
* Sorbus domestica (Service Tree), a species of tree
* Universal basic services, a form of social security