servicing

Pluralservicings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of carrying out maintenance, checks, or repairs on something.

   The airline schedules routine servicing for each aircraft after a set number of flight hours.

   Annual servicing of the boiler is required to keep the warranty valid.

   Similarmaintenance, overhaul, upkeep, repair

   Oppositeneglect

   Note

   A maintenance word that counts as readily as it masses. In the plural, servicings are separate visits, as when you ask how many a car has had this year. Uncountable, it names the work as an ongoing need, as when Trains Illustrated in 1960 describes a shed built to allow future servicing of nine-car trains. Choose the plural for individual occasions and the mass noun for the activity in general.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of service.

   Technicians are servicing the jet engines before the next flight.

   She is servicing several major accounts for the bank this quarter.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every sense of the verb, not only the mechanic's: a borrower can be servicing a debt by paying its interest, and an agency can be servicing media outlets with press releases. Take care, because euphemistic and vulgar sexual uses also exist, and some phrasings can land oddly. As a gerund it takes a direct object (servicing the engines), whereas the maintenance noun takes of (the servicing of trains).

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