public service

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscommunity service

   Broaderservice
2. 2.

   employment within a government system (especially in the civil service)

   Broaderemployment

   Narrowerminister

Questions about public service

What does public service mean?

public 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 public service?

Close synonyms include community 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 public service a common word?

public 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.