see service

[see service] {v. phr.}

1. To be used over a considerable period of time.

* /This old camera of mine has already seen six years of service./

2. To serve in a military sense.

* /Colonel Hutchins has seen service in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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