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community service

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The definition of community service is volunteer work done for free in order to give back to the community.

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An example of community service is when a person works at a soup kitchen without pay for three hours a week because he chooses to do so.
An example of community service is when a person works at a soup kitchen without pay for three hours a week because a judge orders him to do so as part of his sentence for stealing.

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See community service in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

See community service in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Services volunteered by individuals or an organization to benefit a community or its institutions.
Similar work performed by law offenders to serve a sentence in lieu of or in addition to jail time.

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