public service
the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
government employment; civil service.
a service to the public rendered without charge by a profit-making organization: This radio program has been brought to you as a public service.
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How to use public service in a sentence
Yet, as postwar economic growth began to slow in the 1960s, states once again turned to gambling, this time hoping to finance the combination of generous public services and low taxes that citizens had come to expect.
Sports gambling could be the pandemic’s biggest winner | Jonathan D. Cohen | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostA 37-year-old former high school football star, Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines and Houston city controller, Castillo brought a public service background to the position.
The DHS secretary could chart a new path on immigration. Will he? | Adam Goodman | February 2, 2021 | Washington Post“I appreciate Jason’s commitment to public service in this advisory role, which he will perform without compensation from any party,” Filner wrote in an April 2013 press release.
How a Volunteer Helped Get the City Into Its Biggest Real Estate Debacle | Lisa Halverstadt | January 29, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe senator and vice president-elect describes her upbringing and career in public service.
This small number would result in negligible impacts on population, housing, and public services in the proposed Project area.
Law-enforcement agencies at all levels of government provide a valuable and often thankless public service in their communities.
Are Police Stealing People’s Property? | Joan Blades, Matt Kibbe | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.
Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.
“Hurting others or destroying property is not the answer,” the elder Brown had said last week in a public-service video.
I just came from a ceremony that celebrated pre-vets day down at Arizona public service—20 percent of their employees are vets.
A railroad corporation, though performing a public service, nevertheless is a private corporation.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney BollesThis contempt for the masses they cherish until they have to descend from Parnassus and enter the public service.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandHe had been ordered by the Commissioners of the Excise to pay ten thousand pounds into the Exchequer for the public service.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThe estates of such men would soon have been considered as a fund applicable to the public service.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayHis last public service was performed in the defence of Hamburgh, where he was lieutenant governor.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria Graham
British Dictionary definitions for public service
government employment
the management and administration of the affairs of a political unit, esp the civil service
a service provided for the community: buses provide a public service
(as modifier): a public-service announcement
Australian and NZ the service responsible for the public administration of the government of a country. It excludes the legislative, judicial, and military branches. Members of the public service have no official political allegiance and are not generally affected by changes of governments: British equivalent: civil service
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