community service

1. 1.

   a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions

   Synonymspublic service

   Broaderservice
2. 2.

   an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence

   Broaderservice

Questions about community service

What does community service mean?

community service means "a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for community service?

Close synonyms include public service. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is community service a common word?

community service is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.