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I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.
Alan G. Poindexter

Meaning of "service families" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SERVICE FAMILIES

service families  [ˈsɜːvɪs ˈfæmɪlɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SERVICE FAMILIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Service families is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SERVICE FAMILIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of service families in the English dictionary

The definition of service families in the dictionary is families which have a member serving in the armed forces.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SERVICE FAMILIES


billies
ˈbɪlɪz
collies
ˈkɒlɪz
dailies
ˈdeɪlɪz
dillies
ˈdɪlɪz
follies
ˈfɒlɪz
friendlies
ˈfrendlɪz
frillies
ˈfrɪlɪz
gullies
ˈɡʌlɪz
Heelys
ˈhiːlɪz
jellies
ˈdʒɛlɪz
mollies
ˈmɒlɪz
monthlies
ˈmʌnθlɪz
rallies
ˈrælɪz
Scillies
ˈsɪlɪz
trolleys
ˈtrɒlɪz
wallies
ˈwælɪz
weeklies
ˈwiːklɪz
wellies
ˈwɛlɪz
Westerlies
ˈwɛstəlɪz
willies
ˈwɪlɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SERVICE FAMILIES

service bus
service ceiling
service centre
service charge
service contract
service department
service dress
service economy
service elevator
service engineer
service flat
service game
service hatch
service history
service industries
service industry
service lift
service line
service module
service provider

WORDS THAT END LIKE SERVICE FAMILIES

allies
applies
as the crow flies
assemblies
butterflies
doilies
families
flies
happy families
homilies
implies
lilies
relies
replies
subfamilies
superfamilies
supplies
the Two Sicilies
to play happy families
Two Sicilies

Synonyms and antonyms of service families in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «service families» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SERVICE FAMILIES

Find out the translation of service families to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of service families from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «service families» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

服务家庭
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

familias de servicios
570 millions of speakers

English

service families
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सेवा परिवारों
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خدمة العائلات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

семьи сервис
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

famílias de serviços
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সেবা পরিবারের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

familles de services
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keluarga perkhidmatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Service Familien
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サービス家族
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

서비스 가족
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kulawarga layanan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gia đình dịch vụ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சேவை குடும்பங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सेवा कुटुंबे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hizmet aileleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

famiglie di servizio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rodzin usług
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сім´ї сервіс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

familii de servicii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οικογένειες υπηρεσίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diens families
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

familjer tjänste
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tjenesteleverandører familier
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of service families

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SERVICE FAMILIES»

The term «service families» is normally little used and occupies the 122.225 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SERVICE FAMILIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «service families» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «service families» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about service families

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QUOTES WITH «SERVICE FAMILIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word service families.
1
Alan G. Poindexter
I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERVICE FAMILIES»

Discover the use of service families in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to service families and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Service Families Accommodation
There is a shortage of properties for larger families. But the MOD also has 9,170 vacant properties. This is 18 per cent of its housing stock (against a target of 10 per cent), and vacant properties cost an average £4,200 each per year.
Great Britain. National Audit Office, 2009
2
Educating Service Children: Eleventh Report of Session ...
Education Support CEAS Service families are sometimes unclear on the appeals process if children have not been olTercd a place at the school of their choice. Notice AD SP Pol Families/single Services Short notice has been identified as a ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee, 2006
3
Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas ...
84; housing for (see Housing for service families); as integral parts of the military, 38–39; in Japan (see Service families in Japan); locals' view of, 156–157, 201– 202, 232; military leaders' fears about, 8; monetary allowances during World War  ...
Donna Alvah, 2007
4
Care of Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families:
... third of all service members deployed (Deputy Under Secretary of Defense 2009). The deployment operations tempo has been similar for Marines. Although the operations tempo is less for the Air Force and Navy, all military service families ...
Stephen J. Cozza, M.D., Matthew N. Goldenberg, M.D., Robert J. Ursano, M.D., 2014
5
Service families accommodation: forty-first report of ...
The Ministry of Defence (the Department) has around 50,000 properties in the UK, providing accommodation for 42,000 Service personnel and their families.
House of Commons Public Accounts Committ, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts, 2009
6
Support for all: the families and relationships green paper
2.38 One example of the Government's work in this area is through the Service Families Employment Taskforce. Established at the end of last year, this group is looking at what more can be done to tackle the barriers Service families face ...
Great Britain: Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2010
7
Counseling Military Families: What Mental Health ...
... for civilians to understand or know the names of every rank or insignia for all services; it can be quite confusing, and remembering each insignia would not be expected if a counselor is seeing only a few military service families in counseling.
Lynn K. Hall, 2010
8
Reaching High-Risk Families: Intensive Family Preservation ...
... combined with a more integrated plan for addressing the range of contributing problems, would at a minimum produce better risk assessment and more purposeful case management of service plans for many protective service families.
James K. Whittaker
9
Protecting Children and Supporting Families: Promising ...
Despite the time saved by social workers with home helper families, the lay therapy approach was more expensive ($255 per family per month compared to $93 for standard service families) due to the greater amount of time spent on each ...
Gary Cameron, Jim Vanderwoerd, Leslea Peirson, 1997
10
Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order From the French ...
Within this elite student body, service families were over-represented in comparison with the general Napoleonic notabilite. Civil servants, thirty-four per cent of the notables, accounted for nearly forty-seven per cent of the students. And while ...
Howard G. Brown, Judith A. Miller, 2002

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERVICE FAMILIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term service families is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Space-A flights expand for families of deployed troops
More family members of deployed troops can travel space-available on military ... "When available, this benefit was able to improve service families' quality of life ... «Military Times, Jul 15»
2
Dual-service couples may see housing allowance cut under Senate …
If the full Senate and, later this summer, the full House were to agree to this change, it would be a dramatic compensation cut for dual-service families whose ... «Stars and Stripes, May 15»
3
Praise but no funding for troubled teen service Families First
Referrals come from the Child and Family Agency (Tusla), the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, the Garda Youth Diversion Project, and schools but ... «Irish Examiner, Apr 15»
4
Foreign Service families know the risks, believe in the work
The shock of Tuesday night's attack in Libya is reverberating through the tightknit community of Foreign Service families, all of whom are trained to anticipate the ... «Washington Post, Sep 12»
5
Married soldiers forced to leave Army accommodation as part of cuts …
It is thought the move is part of an effort to reduce the current £318m annual cost of housing Service families. One former head of the Army told The Times that he ... «Daily Mail, Feb 12»

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