service call
1
3.7
- noun
- /ˈsɜrvɪs kɔl/
- Specialized
:
llamada de servicio
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Examples
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The software team documented every service call made to the API to optimize the application's performance.
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Check what AB charges for a service call.
Blog text (25) -
More recently, Indian firms have moved from writing software code and handling technical service calls to larger, complex systems projects.
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Do you remember taking a customer service call about a bride whose bridesmaids' dresses showed up in gray, and we had the vendor remake them overnight and put them on a plane?
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If we want more precise data, the city could easily use the same GPS tracking system on fire engines that is already used for snow plows—it's what HVA does for its ambulances, so that you can actually replay the path and time on a map for each medical service call.
Blog text (32) -
During the analysis, the developers noted that the most frequent issue arose during a specific service call to retrieve user data.
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After completing a service call, the client confirmed that the application was functioning as expected.
Synonyms
72
7.5
An instruction that makes a program run a separate set of commands
How Complex
- Specialized
1
3.9
- Specialized
18
4.0
- Specialized
1
3.7
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a request sent to a software service' is directly derivable from combining 'service' (software delivered over the internet) and 'call' (a request/instruction to execute a routine). The compound follows a regular modifier + head pattern ('service' modifies 'call') with no idiomatic shift, so a learner who knows both constituent senses can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The computing sense of service call comes from the image of call meaning 'to ask for help'. Just like you call a person for help, one program sends a 'call' to a software 'service' to ask it to do a job, so the phrase means that program-to-program 'request'.