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Community service   /kəmjˈunəti sˈərvəs/   Listen
Community service

noun
1.
A service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions.  Synonym: public service.
2.
An unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence.





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"Community service" Quotes from Famous Books



... occupations have more than economic value; they are fundamental to social prosperity. It is self-evident that the physician and the school-teacher render community service, but it is not so clear that the farmer who keeps his house well painted and his grounds in order, and who is improving his cattle and increasing the yield of his fields and woodland by scientific methods, and who organizes his neighbors ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe


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