services
PLURAL NOUN:
1. Often "services," the performance of any duties or work for another; helpful or professional activity:
medical services.
2. work performed for remuneration.
3. "the services," the armed forces.
4. (sometimes singular) economics commodities, such as banking, that are mainly intangible and usually consumed concurrently with their production. Compare goods.
5. a system of providing the public with gas, water, etc.
6. work done for others as an occupation or business. (Compare goods.).
goods:
(sometimes singular) economics commodities that are tangible, usually movable, and generally not consumed at the same time as they are produced. Compare services.
Origin:
before 1100; Middle English (noun) < Old French < Latin servitium servitude, equivalent to serv(us) slave + -itium -ice; replacing Middle English servise, late Old English serfise ceremony < Old French servise, variant of service. Plants, trees, etc: 1520–30; earlier serves, plural of obsolete serve service tree; Middle English; Old English syrfe < Vulgar Latin *sorbea, derivative of Latin sorbus sorb1. British Dictionary: C12 servise, from Old French, from Latin servitium condition of a slave, from servus a slave. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of service: Noun (1): 13th century. Verb: 1528. Adjective: 1837. Noun (2): 1530. History and Etymology for service: Noun (1): Middle English, from Anglo-French servise, from Latin servitium condition of a slave, body of slaves, from servus slave. Noun (2): Middle English serves, plural of serve fruit of the service tree, service tree, from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus service tree. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2, 3.
Updated: 28 July 2020 {9:40 AM}
1. Often "services," the performance of any duties or work for another; helpful or professional activity:
medical services.
2. work performed for remuneration.
3. "the services," the armed forces.
4. (sometimes singular) economics commodities, such as banking, that are mainly intangible and usually consumed concurrently with their production. Compare goods.
5. a system of providing the public with gas, water, etc.
6. work done for others as an occupation or business. (Compare goods.).
goods:
(sometimes singular) economics commodities that are tangible, usually movable, and generally not consumed at the same time as they are produced. Compare services.
Origin:
before 1100; Middle English (noun) < Old French < Latin servitium servitude, equivalent to serv(us) slave + -itium -ice; replacing Middle English servise, late Old English serfise ceremony < Old French servise, variant of service. Plants, trees, etc: 1520–30; earlier serves, plural of obsolete serve service tree; Middle English; Old English syrfe < Vulgar Latin *sorbea, derivative of Latin sorbus sorb1. British Dictionary: C12 servise, from Old French, from Latin servitium condition of a slave, from servus a slave. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of service: Noun (1): 13th century. Verb: 1528. Adjective: 1837. Noun (2): 1530. History and Etymology for service: Noun (1): Middle English, from Anglo-French servise, from Latin servitium condition of a slave, body of slaves, from servus slave. Noun (2): Middle English serves, plural of serve fruit of the service tree, service tree, from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus service tree. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2, 3.
Updated: 28 July 2020 {9:40 AM}