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saw service

saw service is the simple past of see service.

Meaning of see service

Verb

see service (third-person singular simple present sees service, present participle seeing service, simple past saw service, past participle seen service)

  1. To be put to use; to be employed for a purpose.
    • The military and the fire service are probably the two roughest environments in which such a device will see service.2005, John Norman, Fire Officer's Handbook of Tactics, page 243

Questions about saw service

What is saw service the simple past of?
Saw service is the simple past of see service.

Words near saw service in the dictionary

  1. saw pits
  2. saw reason
  3. saw red
  4. saw sam sai
  5. saw sense
  6. saw service
  7. saw set
  8. saw sets
  9. saw shark
  10. saw sharks
  11. saw shit

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