community service

Definition of "community service"
  1. Unpaid work benefiting the community that a convicted defendant might have to do instead of serving a jail sentence
How to use "community service" in a sentence
  1. The judge handed down a sentence of 100 hours of community service.
  2. Instead of going to jail, he was ordered to serve community service.
  3. His community service involved cleaning up local parks.
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