service area

1. 1.

   place on a highway providing garage services and eating and toilet facilities

   Broadertopographic point

Questions about service area

What does service area mean?

service area means "place on a highway providing garage services and eating and toilet facilities".

Is service area a common word?

service area 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.