community services
community services is the plural of community service.
Meaning of community service
Noun
community service (countable and uncountable, plural community services)
- Service or activity performed for the benefit of the community at large, such as cleaning, fundraising, pro bono professional services, etc.
- Within El Alberto, belonging is premised on the completion of between one and three years of unpaid community service, which all Hñähñu men and unmarried Hñähñu women are required to contribute every eight years. To default on this service is to lose citizenship within the pueblo. This means no...2019, Michaela Django Walsh, “Partiendo la madre: Borders, Thresholds, and Transnational Sites of Belonging”, in Chiricú Journal, volume 3, number 2, →DOI, pages 47 of 41–58
- Such work performed as an alternative for a criminal penalty.
- Synonyms:
- community payback
Questions about community services
- What is community services the plural of?
- Community services is the plural of community service.
Words near community services in the dictionary
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