see service

English

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.
    • 2005, John Norman, Fire Officer's Handbook of Tactics, page 243:
      The military and the fire service are probably the two roughest environments in which such a device will see service.
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