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community service

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community service
n.
1. Services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or its institutions.
2. Similar work performed by law offenders to serve a sentence in lieu of or in addition to jail time.
community service
Noun
organized unpaid work intended for the good of the community: often used as a punishment for minor criminals
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.community servicecommunity service - a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions
public service
service - an act of help or assistance; "he did them a service"
2.community service - an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence
service - an act of help or assistance; "he did them a service"
Translations

community service community n → travail m d'intérêt général, TIG m
community service community n → Sozialdienst m
community service n (BRIT) → lavoro sostitutivo
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LANCASTER -- The city's takeover and expansion of the community service officer program is beginning to show results for improving service and easing sheriff's deputies' workloads, city and sheriff's officials said Monday.
COMMUNITY SERVED BY PROGRAM CSO PROJECT SHOWS RESULTS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In response to growing obesity rates in the state, the Georgia Recreation and Park Association (GRPA) recently created and adopted a new resolution to offer healthy alternatives to children and families at community service agencies such as parks and recreation.
Georgia adopts healthy resolution by Parks & Recreation
The Community Service Self-Efficacy Scale (CSSES) measures the person's confidence in his or her own ability to make clinically significant contributions to the community through service.
Community service self-efficacy: research review by Reeb, Roger N. / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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