service area

British  

noun

1. a place on a motorway providing garage services, restaurants, toilet facilities, etc

2. the area within which a satisfactory signal can be received from a given radio transmitter

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Example Sentences

Waymo has been expanding its service area in San Francisco over the last several years and has established a presence in nine other major cities, including Los Angeles and Austin.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Utilities including Entergy—which operates in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—and Dominion—with a service area spanning parts of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina—said they had storm-response teams ready to mobilize should outages occur.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

When Asthana took over as CEO of PJM in 2020, power plants within its service area were shutting down more quickly than they could be replaced.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

The company also expanded its service area in Northern California to more than 260 square miles.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

An incident later in B-block had called my bluff: I’d discovered a fire in the service area that ran down the center of the block; welders upstairs had unwittingly ignited a length of PVC pipe.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover