community service
/kəˈmju·nɪ·t̬i ˈsɜr·vɪs/ n [U]Definition
› work that people do without payment to help other people, and which people may sometimes be ordered to do as punishment for crimes that are not too serious: The judge ordered him to pay a fine and perform 100 hours of community service.
(Definition of community service n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Our dictionaries
Browse the Thesaurus
Browse the Dictionary
Word of the Day
throw sb together
If two people are thrown together, they meet each other in a way that was not planned, or events...
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
