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servicing

servicing is the present participle and gerund of service.

Meaning of service

Verb

service (third-person singular simple present services, present participle servicing, simple past and past participle serviced)

  1. (transitive) To serve.
    • They service the customer base.
    1. (transitive) To perform maintenance.
      • He is going to service the car.
    2. (transitive, public relations) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
      • One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing.1977, Patricia Marshall, Citizen Participation Certification for Community Development, page 107
  2. (transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).
    • It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs.
  3. (euphemistic, transitive) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
  4. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
    • He serviced her several times a week.
    Synonyms:
    be with

See all 28 meanings of service

Noun

servicing (countable and uncountable, plural servicings)

  1. The act of performing maintenance on something.
    • How many servicings has your car had this year?
    • A depot for the maintenance and servicing of diesel locomotives on the Great Eastern line is being provided at Ipswich by the conversion of the steam motive power depot, which was rebuilt in 1954, with the requirements of diesel traction in mind.1959 November, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Eastern and North Eastern Regions”, in Railway Magazine, page 807

Forms of servicing

pluralservicings

Words formed from servicing

Questions about servicing

What does servicing mean?
Servicing means the act of performing maintenance on something.
What is servicing the present participle and gerund of?
Servicing is the present participle and gerund of service.
What part of speech is servicing?
Servicing is a noun.
What is the plural of servicing?
The plural of servicing is servicings.

Words near servicing in the dictionary

  1. Serviceton
  2. serviceware
  3. servicewoman
  4. servicewomen
  5. servicification
  6. servicing
  7. servicings
  8. Servidio
  9. Servidios
  10. servience
  11. servient

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Adapted from Wiktionary: servicing (page history and authors); service (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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