community service

Definition of Community Service in English :

1. community service, public service

a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions

2. community service

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Community Service

noun

1.

voluntary work, intended to be for the common good, usually done as part of an organized scheme

2. community-service order

unpaid work which benefits the community; specif., such work imposed on a convicted person as a sentence

n.

1. Services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or its institutions.

2. Similar work performed by law offenders to serve a sentence in lieu of or in addition to jail time.