Service vs. Hospitality — What's the Difference?

The action of helping or doing work for someone

Hospitality is the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with some amount of goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt describes hospitality in the Encyclopédie as the virtue of a great soul that cares for the whole universe through the ties of humanity.

A system supplying a public need such as transport, communications, or utilities such as electricity and water

Cordial and generous reception of or disposition toward guests.

A ceremony of religious worship according to a prescribed form

An instance of cordial and generous treatment of guests.

A periodic routine inspection and maintenance of a vehicle or other machine

The act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests; an appropriate attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward guests.

A set of matching crockery used for serving a particular meal

The business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service; the industry which includes the operation of hotels, restaurants, and similar enterprises.

(in tennis and other racket sports) the action or right of serving to begin play.

The food, drink, and entertainment given to customers by a company or organization or provided to visitors by a private host.

The formal delivery of a document such as a writ or summons.

The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.

Perform routine maintenance or repair work on (a vehicle or machine)

Kindness in welcoming guests or strangers

(of a male animal) mate with (a female animal)

Work that is done for others as an occupation or business

The performance of work or duties for a superior or as a servant

An act or a variety of work done for others, especially for pay

Assistance; help

An act of assistance or benefit; a favor

The serving of food or the manner in which it is served

A set of dishes or utensils

Employment in duties or work for another, as for a government

A government branch or department and its employees

A department or branch of a hospital staff that provides specified patient care

The armed forces of a nation

A branch of the armed forces of a nation.

The installation, maintenance, or repairs provided or guaranteed by a dealer or manufacturer

The provision to the public of something, especially a utility

The system or equipment used to provide something to the public

The right of serving in many court games.

A serve

A religious rite or formal ceremony

Copulation with a female animal. Used of male animals, especially studs.

(Law) The serving of a legal process, such as a summons or court order.

The material, such as cord, used in binding or wrapping rope.

An answering service.

To make fit for use; adjust, repair, or maintain

To provide services to

To make interest payments on (a debt).

To copulate with (a female animal). Used of a male animal, especially studs.

(Slang) To have sex with.

Of or relating to the armed forces of a country.

Intended for use in supplying or serving

Offering repairs or maintenance

Offering services to the public in response to need or demand

An act of being of assistance to someone.

(economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.

A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.

(computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.

The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group

The military.

A set of dishes or utensils.

(sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.

A religious rite or ritual.

(legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.

A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.

A musical composition for use in churches.

(obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.

(nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.

Access to resources such as hotel rooms and web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.

Service tree.

The sorb; the fruit of this tree.

(transitive) To serve.

(transitive) To perform maintenance.

To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.

To inseminate through sexual intercourse.

To perform a sexual act upon.

To attack.

A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.

The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love.

The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.

Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.

Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.

Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.

Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail.

Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.

The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.

The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpŒna or an attachment.

The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.

The act of serving the ball.

Work done by one person or group that benefits another;

A company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation

The act of public worship following prescribed rules;

An act of help or assistance;

Employment in or work for another;

A force that is a branch of the armed forces

The performance of duties by a waiter or servant;

Periodic maintenance on a car or machine;

Tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table

(sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play;

The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone;

Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958)

A means of serving;

The act of mating by male animals;

(law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him

Be used by; as of a utility;

Make fit for use;

Mate with;