Community service is unpaid work ordered by a court instead of a prison term. Sentenced to community service, hours of community service, do community service.
It is measured in hours rather than months, and it is meant to be both a punishment and a repair. In England it is now formally called unpaid work, though everybody still says community service.
1nouncommunity serviceUnpaid work ordered instead of a prison term.
“He was given two hundred hours of community service.”
community service is a sentence.
Practised in Crime & Law