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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
servicing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
debt
▪ Despite several restructuring agreements since 1983 the cost of debt servicing continued to consume approximately one-third of export revenues.
▪ Foreign and domestic debt servicing accounted for IS21,000 million, spending on immigration IS12,300 million and defence IS10,600 million.
▪ Of the K1,200 million recurrent budget, debt servicing accounted for slightly less than one-third.
▪ As in the previous budget, defence and debt servicing accounted for a large percentage of planned current expenditure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Calibration and servicing of scientific instruments.
▪ Foreign-debt servicing is not included in spending, though foreign loans received are included in revenue.
▪ Foreign and domestic debt servicing accounted for IS21,000 million, spending on immigration IS12,300 million and defence IS10,600 million.
▪ Many cleaning machine manufacturers and suppliers often seem unable or unwilling to provide routine servicing for the machines they sell.
▪ Regular servicing ensures vehicles operate at their maximum levels of efficiency and safety.
▪ There is another way to reduce the £300 - by skimping servicing.
▪ This helps facilitate the organisation of labour and the servicing of rooms. 2.
▪ This will ensure the easy removal of these appliances should servicing be necessary.
Wiktionary
servicing

n. The act of performing maintenance on something. vb. (present participle of service English)

WordNet
servicing

n. the act of mating by male animals; "the bull was worth good money in servicing fees" [syn: service]

Wikipedia
Servicing

Servicing may refer to:

  • car servicing, a series of maintenance procedures carried out at a set time-interval or after the vehicle has travelled a certain distance
  • computer maintenance
  • loan servicing, the process by which a mortgage bank collects the timely payment of interest and principal from borrowers
  • mortgage servicing, company to which some borrowers pay their mortgage loan payments and which performs other services

Usage examples of "servicing".

Matekoni had explained to the apprentice what needed to be done to the car which had been brought in for servicing, the three of them set off in the truck, leaving Mma Makutsi alone in the office.

In some cases, the ganglia separating the preganglionic fibers from the postganglionic fibers are actually located within the organ the nerve is servicing.

They tell you everything in the Academy: leadership, communications, the precise form of a regimental parade, laser range-finding systems, placement of patches on uniforms, how to compute firing patterns for mortars, wine rations for the troops, how to polish a pair of boots, servicing recoilless rifles, delivery of calling cards to all senior officers within twenty-four hours of reporting to a new post, assembly and maintenance of helicopters, survival on rocks with poisonous atmosphere or no atmosphere at all, shipboard routines, and a million other details.

The second time, Baraka suggested that she would spend the rest of her life in a brothel servicing goats if she did not respect the red light.

Proceed immediately to the nurse ships for deactivation, servicing, and replacement.

Sea of Turagin, but it was one of only six packet-boats to make a complete circuit, servicing all the hexes who cared to, or needed to, get trade and transportation.

It is not possible for us, at this stage of Plutonian national and industrial development, to assume the operation and servicing of vital life and community support systems, nor has the Planet Pluto Government the technical skills and facilities at this time to produce and deliver infrastructure and commodities essential for a self-sustaining economy.

The remaining five battleships were grounded for servicing and restocking at the plaza spaceport so that the septa would be ready to return to Ildira within a day.

Inside, they had hollowed out the entire planet and installed an expanded version of JEVEX as a single, monolithic, supercomputing matrix, servicing the Jevlenese world-system via communications though i-space.

He could hardly have been important in the servicing of cows, for surely younger bulls must have driven him away by now, but he had a notable dignity which the German watercolorist tried to catch.

Despite all manner of enhanced security precautions and procedures, doubled and redoubled layers of guards and the like, the maddeningly impossible thefts had continued unabatedmore powder of both sorts, of course, but also garrison guns, sling guns, and long calivers off the very sentry-patrolled walls, and food stores, along with an assortment of hardware for the servicing and laying of cannon and round shot for cannon, pigs of lead, and a brass gang-mold for the casting of caliver balls.

The waiting list for leases at Refinery Two meant no ship sat idle longer than its servicing required.

Devine spoke with Chet Premminger about servicing the plane, she leaned on the hood, staring at what was left of the sunset, a few crimson and orange ribbons in the west, with mesas and gentle mountains silhouetted black like on corny picture postcards.

They were embedded in a solid block of plastic which made servicing abominably difficult but which solved the pressure problem neatly.

You remembered it when you saw your bills at next servicing, damn right, you did.