unservice
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To disconnect from service; to decommission.
Example Sentences
- "And where you tax us for unservice, lady / I never knew a soldier yet, that could / Arrive into your favour;"
- "He was carving a fowl at the time; and with a blade of blunt unservice made but wretched work of it."
- "The under-mentioned districts are to be Tenaka, or secured to me by your Highness, on account of the balances due to the Soucars through my means; biz. Vodearpollam, Aleanoor, Madura, Trichinopoly, and Terooputtyl and your Highness might at the same time pass order to the Amuldars and Moostadars, under service and unservice, in the said districts, for the produce of the Pasily 1210 and 1211."
- "The cost of preparation for teaching is large, the cost of living is large, and under present conditions there is likely to be an old age of enforced unservice."
- "Figure 13b shows the rebalance performance over multiple days. We count the decreased unservice events since it is additive."
- ""In fact" he says, "it would be an absolute, tangible unservice.""
Etymology
From un- + service.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Usage
Inflected Forms
unservices (present, singular)
unservicing (participle, present)
unserviced (participle, past)
unserviced (past)