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disservice

/dɪ(s)ˈsɜːvɪs/US/dɪ(s)ˈsɝvɪs/

disservice noun: service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.

Noun

disservice (countable and uncountable, plural disservices)

  1. Service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
    • One renders young people a disservice by heaping unearned rewards on them.
    • Often schools of music focus solely on the canon of Western classical art music, but this is a disservice to music educators who will have to deal with students from many different backgrounds and preferences.2014, Michele Kaschub, Janice Smith, Promising Practices in 21st Century Music Teacher Education, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Verb

disservice (third-person singular simple present disservices, present participle disservicing, simple past and past participle disserviced)

  1. To disserve, to provide a disservice to; to provide harmful or inadequate service to.
    • One librarian said, "I could double the circulation tomorrow by closing the periodical stacks and counting every time I handed out a magazine, but I would be disservicing our readers."1975, Sarah Katharine Thomson, Learning resource centers in community colleges

disservice meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

disservice in Hindi

service that results in harm
अपकार apkār

disservice in Tamil

கெடுதி, பணியறச் செய்தல், தீங்கு, பொல்லாமை

disservice in Malayalam

disfavour, unkindness, bad turn
അപകാരം, ഉപദ്രവം, സൂന, ഉപദ്രവകരമായ പ്രവൃത്തി, ഉപകാരക്കേട്, ദയയില്ലായ്മ

disservice in Kannada

ಅಪಕಾರ, ಹಾನಿ, ಕೆಡಕು, ಕೆಡುಕು, ತೊಂದರೆ

Examples of disservice in a sentence

  • But where the heart is concerned, a one-shot, silver bullet approach would be the ultimate disservice.
  • The article was a disservice to those of us who are unfortunate enough to be afflicted with aibohphobia.
  • “You do Berlin a disservice, baron.

All 11 example sentences with disservice

Forms of disservice

Noun
pluraldisservices
Verb
third-person singular presentdisservices
present participledisservicing
past participledisserviced
pastdisserviced

Origin of disservice

From dis- + service.

Questions about disservice

What does disservice mean?
Disservice means service that results in harm; an (intentionally or unintentionally) unhelpful, harmful action.
What is disservice in Hindi?
Disservice in Hindi is अपकार (apkār). See Disservice meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is disservice?
Disservice can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce disservice?
Disservice is pronounced /dɪ(s)ˈsɜːvɪs/ (UK).
What is the plural of disservice?
The plural of disservice is disservices.

Words near disservice in the dictionary

  1. disserting
  2. disserts
  3. disserve
  4. disserved
  5. disserves
  6. disservice
  7. disserviceable
  8. disserviceably
  9. disserviced
  10. disservices
  11. disservicing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disservice (page history and authors); disservice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disservice (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disservice (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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