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disservice1 noundisservice2 verb disservicedis‧ser‧vice1 /dɪˈsɜːvəs, dɪsˈsɜː $ -ɜːr-/ noun - Am I really doing him a disservice if I leave it as one big C: drive?
- By confusing unrelated issues and taking information out of context, you do readers a great disservice.
- I would have done her a disservice had I immediately jumped in to help.
- 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.
- Well, it does them a great disservice.
ADJECTIVE► great· Stress management experts, however, are now suggesting that auger has been done a great disservice.· Well, it does them a great disservice.· Many perform a great disservice to their members by failing to represent their interests independently and fairly.· In this case, the term does a great disservice to horses.· But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony. VERB► do· When Mr Non-Productive Employee gets a raise, it does a disservice to the productive employee.· Well, it does them a great disservice.· The remedial programs we knew about did a disservice to their students by thinking of them as remedial. ► do somebody/something a disservice- The fans' rude behavior has done the game a great disservice.
- Such uninformed views do the industry a disservice.
- The remedial programs we knew about did a disservice to their students by thinking of them as remedial.
- When Mr Non-Productive Employee gets a raise, it does a disservice to the productive employee.
nounservantserveserverservicedisservicethe servicesservingserveryservicingservilityservitudeadjectiveserviceableservileservingverbserveservice do somebody/something a disservice (also do a disservice to somebody/something) to do something that gives other people a bad opinion of someone or something: The fans have done the game a great disservice.disservice1 noundisservice2 verb disservicedisservice2 /dɪˈsɜːvɪs, dɪsˈsɜ- $ -ɜːr-/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEdisservice |
Present | I, you, we, they | disservice, disservicing | | he, she, it | disservices, disservicing | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | disserviced, disservicing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have disserviced, disservicing | | he, she, it | has disserviced, disservicing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had disserviced, disservicing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will disservice | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have disserviced, disservicing |
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. |