essential service
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- noun
- Formal
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servicio esencial
- During the pandemic, healthcare and sanitation were classified as essential services to ensure public safety.
- provide essential services
- deliver essential services
- 10 essential services
Sovereignty relates to the ability to deliver in practice the essential services that people expect from government.
- Sovereignty relates to the ability to deliver in practice the essential services that people expect from government.
- We do not provide any essential service to humanity, so what's the point?
Examples
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Sovereignty relates to the ability to deliver in practice the essential services that people expect from government.
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The urban hospital leaders viewed preventive care for children as the second most essential service.
Academic text (1994) -
See, I run an essential service here.
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My advice: sell your car, move close to work, school, and essential services.
Blog text (25) -
I'm really grateful that they exist and provide essential services for women all over the country.
Blog text (20) -
The Georgetown Public Library is an essential service in our community.
Blog text (34) -
All I care about is making sure essential services and entitlement programs are maintained.
Blog text (33) -
Recognizing that students lacked essential services for a well-rounded education, a group of activist parents got busy.
Academic text (2009) -
For instance, the recent privatization of many municipal utility providers may raise concerns over affordable public access to essential services.
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The government prioritized funding for essential services like food distribution and emergency response during the crisis.
Antonyms
How Essential
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4.0
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a service considered necessary for health, safety, or well‑being' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'essential' (necessary/fundamental) with 'service' (assistance/work). This simple adjective + noun composition is a common, compositional pattern across languages and in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Essential service comes from the simple idea of work people must have to stay safe and well. The word essential means 'necessary' and service means help or work for people, so it refers to jobs like doctors, water supply, or the police that must keep running. That's why it means services needed for 'health' and 'safety'.