service abroad

1. 1.

   naval service aboard a ship at sea

   Synonymssea-dutyshipboard duty

   Broaderassignment

Questions about service abroad

What does service abroad mean?

service abroad means "naval service aboard a ship at sea".

What is another word for service abroad?

Close synonyms include sea-duty, shipboard duty. 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 service abroad a common word?

service abroad 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.