services

That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.

Noun business, economics

  1. That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed and consists of an action or work.
    • The acts of Congress establishing new mail routes and requiring more expensive services on others and the increasing wants of the country have for three years past carried the expenditures something beyond the accruing...
    • To establish a system of priorities and allocations for materials and facilities, authorize the requisitioning thereof, provide financial assistance for expansion of productive capacity and supply, provide for price and...
    • Except as otherwise provided in regulations issued pursuant to this Order, no goods or services of Iranian origin may be imported into the United States, including its territories and possessions, after the effective...
  2. plural of service

Antonyms

goods capital

Noun UK

  1. A service station.
    • There's a services in 10 miles.
    • However, the tedium was a little relieved by the fact that I had to call in every services from Birmingham to Watford Gap. - 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 77:

Forms

services

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of service