community service

English

Noun

community service (countable and uncountable, plural community services)

1. Service or activity done for the benefit of the community at large, such as cleaning, fundraising, pro bono professional services, etc.
   • 2019, Michaela Django Walsh, “Partiendo la madre: Borders, Thresholds, and Transnational Sites of Belonging”, in Chiricú Journal‎^[1], volume 3, number 2, →DOI, pages 47 of 41–58:

     Within El Alberto, belonging is premised on the completion of between one and three years of unpaid community service, which all Hñähñu men and unmarried Hñähñu women are required to contribute every eight years. To default on this service is to lose citizenship within the pueblo. This means no longer being able to cultivate the land, build a home there, participate in the decision-making processes that affect the community, or receive the protections it provides.

2. (law) Such work done as alternative for a criminal penalty.

   Synonym: community payback

Translations

voluntary service

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社區服務／社区服务 (shèqū fúwù)

• Finnish: vapaaehtoistyö (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Gemeinschaftsdienst m
• Hungarian: önkéntes munka, társadalmi munka
• Indonesian: pengabdian masyarakat
• Malay: khidmat masyarakat
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: servicio comunitario m
• Tagalog: lingkod-pamayanan

alternative penalty

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社區服務／社区服务 (shèqū fúwù)

• Danish: samfundstjeneste c
• Finnish: yhdyskuntapalvelu (fi)
• French: travail d’intérêt général (fr) m, travaux communautaires m pl (Quebec)
• German: gemeinnützige Leistung f (§ 153 Abs. 1 S. 2 Nr. 3 StPO), gemeinnützige Arbeit f (§ 10 JGG Abs. 1 S. 3 Nr. 4 jurisprudence, e.g. BVerfGE 74, 102), freie Arbeit f (Art. 293 EStGB)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀγγαρεία f (angareía)

• Hungarian: közérdekű munka
• Malay: khidmat masyarakat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: samfunnstjeneste m

• Russian: обяза́тельные рабо́ты (ru) f pl (objazátelʹnyje rabóty) (compulsory work, a form of punishment)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: samhällstjänst (sv) c
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can

See also

• voluntary work

References

• “community service”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.