in service
Ready for use
In service describes something currently functioning or being used for its intended purpose: The new train line went in service last month.
It can also mean employed as a domestic servant, a usage now dated: She spent her youth in service to a wealthy family.
The opposite is out of service.
- functioningWorking as intended
- employedHaving paid work
- activeIn operation now
- operationalReady to function
- servingMeasured food portion
commissioned · utilized · running · enlisted · duty · available · volunteering · working · engaged · manned · maintaining · contributing · assisting · participating · online · supporting · butler · waiter
- operationaloperational, functioning, working, running, active
- conditionsmedical condition, weather conditions, environmental conditions, living conditions, working conditions
in serviceout of service
Not currently functioning
out of order · broken · down · inoperative · offline
in serviceretired
No longer in workforce
off duty · discharged · out of work · unemployed · dismissed
in servicedecommissioned
Removed from active service
retired · mothballed · phased out · scrapped · withdrawn
service, services, servicing, serviced, disservice, serviceable, serviceman, self-service, servicemen