Word family noun servant serve server service disservice the services serving servery servicing servility servitude adjective serviceable servile serving verb serve service
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdisservicedis‧ser‧vice1 /dɪˈsɜːvəs, dɪsˈsɜː $ -ɜːr-/ noun → do somebody/something a disserviceExamples from the Corpus
disservice• I would have done her a disservice had I immediately jumped in to help.• Am I really doing him a disservice if I leave it as one big C: drive?• The evidence from excellent companies strongly suggests that managers who feel this way are doing them selves a disservice.• This kind of jiggery-pokery does them a disservice.• To make the assumption that JustText was only capable of producing text would be to do it a grave disservice.• By confusing unrelated issues and taking information out of context, you do readers a great disservice.• Well, it does them a great disservice.disservicedisservice2 /dɪˈsɜːvɪs, dɪsˈsɜ- $ -ɜːr-/ verb [transitive] to do something that gives other people a bad opinion of someone or something Hart’s poems are disserviced by the decision to squeeze three or even four short pieces onto one page.→ See Verb table 