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dinner service

British  

noun

  1. a set of matching plates, dishes, etc, suitable for serving a meal to a certain number of people

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Fearful she might accidentally break a dish, Ms. Gulati had not removed the dinner service from her attic in years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Should they reopen for dinner service, giving their team much-needed hours and offering the business a financial boost?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

Toward the end of the dinner service, she said, was when she heard the senator’s future wife ask: “What else can the love of my life do for you?”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2024

These are opulent occasions, with diplomacy fuelled by fine dining, using a 19th Century dinner service with more than 4,000 pieces.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2023

We were between the lunch and dinner shifts, so the place was empty except for a few cooks preparing for dinner service.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

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