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service item

service item noun: any of the consumer products (food, cosmetics, etc.) handed out or sold on board a passenger aircraft.

Noun

service item (plural service items)

  1. Any of the consumer products (food, cosmetics, etc.) handed out or sold on board a passenger aircraft.
    • There are 5,000 in-flight service items on a 747, ranging from aspirins to toothbrushes.1995, Francis McInerney, Sean White, The Total Quality Corporation, page 88
    • Before landing, the flight attendants pick up any remaining food and beverage service items […]2016, John G. Wensveen, Air Transportation: A Management Perspective, page 262
  2. (euphemistic, humorous) Any of the trash or sewage that must be removed from a passenger aircraft.

Forms of service item

pluralservice items

Questions about service item

What does service item mean?
Service item means any of the consumer products (food, cosmetics, etc.) handed out or sold on board a passenger aircraft.
What part of speech is service item?
Service item is a noun.
What is the plural of service item?
The plural of service item is service items.

Words near service item in the dictionary

  1. service games
  2. service hat
  3. service hats
  4. service industries
  5. service industry
  6. service item
  7. service items
  8. service journalism
  9. service level
  10. service level agreement
  11. service level agreements

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