NOUN
- an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence
- a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions
How To Use community service In A Sentence
- Will there be public-works programmes, or community service, or both?
- What galls him most, Boris says, is that he would gladly have worked off his fines through community service, but the city denied him this option.
- He was given a community service order and put on probation.
- His plan is to establish a nonprofit foundation that would support this kind of community service in exchange for long-term psychotherapy.
- They could have sent Smith to prison but decided on a curfew and community service.
- From next year, Year 10 and 11 students would have to do 20 hours of community service - from doorknocking to coaching sport teams - over the two years.
- Our overarching goal is to both provide a needed community service, and to raise the profile and public visibility of the Alabama State Nurses Association.
- Like the House measure, the Senate bill requires public housing residents to contribute eight hours of community service a month.
- These experiences led me to organize a nongovernmental organization back in Belarus to support U.N. programs and engage in volunteer actions and community service.
- A tag, a community service order and a suspended sentence would have been far more productive. Times, Sunday Times
