see service

verb

To be put to use; to be employed for a purpose.

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Meanings

verbsee service (third-person singular simple present sees service, present participle seeing service, simple past saw service, past participle seen service)

present singular third person sees service · participle present seeing service · past saw service · participle past seen service

  1. To be put to use; to be employed for a purpose.

    The military and the fire service are probably the two roughest environments in which such a device will see service.

    2005, John Norman, Fire Officer's Handbook of Tactics, page 243
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “see service,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/see%20service.

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