public service
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.23 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A service such as health care, transport, or waste removal provided to the general public, often by the government.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "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."