to service oneself
- phrasal verb
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autocuidado
- Travelers in a hostel often service oneself by making their own meals in the shared kitchen.
Examples
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She taught her children how to service oneself when getting ready for school each morning.
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I always service myself when I need something.
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It's important for elderly people to remain able to service oneself for as long as possible.
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Did you service yourself before the event?
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It's important for elderly people to remain able to service oneself for as long as possible.
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She taught her children how to service oneself when getting ready for school each morning.
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Travelers in a hostel often service oneself by making their own meals in the shared kitchen.
Synonyms
16
5.6
Look after yourself without help from others
14
4.8
To act or work alone without help from others
12
4.2
Able to live and support yourself without help from others
7
6.5
To make your own decisions without other people telling you what to do
5
4.4
To support yourself without help from other people
2
7.5
To be independent and take care of yourself without help
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'take care of one's own needs' is partly derivable from combining 'service' (provide assistance or attend to) with the reflexive 'oneself', but many B1 learners know 'service' mainly as a noun and may not recognize the verb sense or the exact collocation. Cross-linguistic reflexive patterns (e.g. 'help/serve oneself') support partial inference, yet the phrasing is somewhat uncommon and requires slight lexical/grammatical adjustment, so comprehension is not fully predictable.
Etymology
The phrase service oneself comes from service meaning to help and the image of a buffet or self-service counter where the service is done by oneself, as people take their own food instead of being helped. That's why it means 'to take care of one's own needs'.