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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
community service
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After appointments in community service, she had joined the Navy.
▪ Better yet, two-thirds wish that their high schools would make community service a requirement for graduation.
▪ Each was ordered to do 120 hours' community service and pay £850 costs.
▪ He was banned from driving for 6 months and ordered to do 200 hours of community service.
▪ Like the House measure, the Senate bill requires public housing residents to contribute eight hours of community service a month.
▪ Milken already has completed the 3, 000 hours of community service required under his probation terms, Reese said.
▪ The study did not seem to lend itself to a description of community service profiles.
Wiktionary
community service

n. 1 service or activity done for the benefit of the community at large, such as cleaning, fundraising, pro bono professional services, etc. 2 Such work done as alternative for a criminal penalty.

WordNet
community service

  1. n. a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions [syn: public service]

  2. an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence

Wikipedia
Community service

Community service is a non-paying activity that is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions. Performing community service is not the same as volunteering, since it is not always performed on a voluntary basis. It may be performed for a variety of reasons:

  • It may be required by a government as a part of citizenship requirements, generally in lieu of military service.
  • It may be required as a substitution of, or in addition to, other criminal justice sanctions – when performed for this reason it may also be referred to as community payback.
  • It may be mandated by schools to meet the requirements of a class, such as in the case of service-learning or to meet the requirements of graduation.
  • In the UK, it has been made a condition of the receipt of certain benefits, including disability-related ones. (see Workfare in the United Kingdom)
  • In Sweden it's a suspended sentence called "samhällstjänst" ("society service").
Community Service (album)

Community Service is a continuous mix album released by The Crystal Method. It features remixes of Crystal Method songs, remixes created by The Crystal Method, and songs from other artists. Remixed songs from popular bands Garbage, P.O.D., and Rage Against the Machine make appearances and the final track contains voice samples from The Matrix. A follow up album, Community Service II, was released with a subsequent tour in 2005.

Usage examples of "community service".

For many young people, part-time schooling and part-time work at low-skill, paid and unpaid community service tasks will prove more satisfying and educational.

Second, involving as many people as possible publicly in the affairs of the SPK bound them to the political and moral tenets of the party and opened the door for the party to further intrude itself into their lives, and thereby control them under the umbrella of shared community service.

Probation and community service, with a bit of counselling thrown in.

I went to Europe with my mother and on business trips with my father, Then there was community service, which is both social and rewarding.

You negotiated free lodgings and utilities in exchange for community service.