private service
noun
Service to an individual rather than to the community, state, etc.; (in later use) specifically domestic service in a private house.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Richard Brome (c1590–1652), playwright.
- shortlist
- shortlistee
- short-lived
- shortly
- short mark
- short measure
- short metre
- shortness
- short of
- short of breath
- short order
- Short Parliament
- short-pitched
- short-range
- short rib
- short-run
- shorts
- short score
- short, sharp shock
- short-sheet
- short shrift
- short sight
- short-sighted
- short-sightedly
- short-sightedness