community servicenoun [ U ]
uk/kəˌmjuː.nə.ti ˈsɜː.vɪs/us/kəˌmjuː.nə.t̬i ˈsɝː.vɪs/work done without payment to help other people. Criminals whose crime was not serious enough for them to be put in prison are sometimes ordered to do community service.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Punishing & punishments
- bar
- be brought/called to account idiom
- boot
- bring
- bum rap
- carrot
- chastise
- clobber
- crucify
- kick
- kick (some) ass idiom
- non-custodial
- parking ticket
- penal
- penalize
- string
- strip
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- wheel clamp
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Examples from literature
- It needs some ceremony that shall fix the lessons of patriotism, of social responsibility and of community service, and stir to noble purpose.
- It will mean to the well-to-do wife freedom to do community service.
- What forms of community service can be done by children and by young people?