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Definition of Disservices
1. disservice [n] - See also: disservice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disservices
Literary usage of Disservices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nature of Capital and Income by Irving Fisher (1906)
"An instrument very seldom yields services without involving some disservices.
A dwelling house, for instance, not only gives off services called shelter, ..."
2. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1871)
"... have regard rather to services that mighte be donne him for the future, by
the intelligence which he had settled, than, by punishing paste disservices, ..."
3. Modern Democracies by James Bryce Bryce (1921)
"Thus it may be said that Party Organization, which has done some great disservices
to America, shows also a good side. ..."
4. The History of the Balkan Peninsula: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ferdinand Schevill (1922)
"In connection with the advance into Palestine highly important Ottoman disservices
were rendered the British by their Arab allies. ..."
5. The Dark Ages by William Paton Ker (1904)
"Before this, while he was sewer and had charge of the table, he used to render
disservices where he dared, especially to Notker. ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1868)
"... person appointed to make such examination shall receive fur disservices at
the rate of rive dollars for each day by him employed in such examination, ..."
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