usługa

== Polish == === Etymology === Deverbal from usłużyć. First attested in the 16th century. Compare Kashubian ùsłëga and Silesian usuga. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /uˈswu.ɡa/ Rhymes: -uɡa Syllabification: u‧słu‧ga === Noun === usługa f (economics) service (paid activity consisting in performing a task) service (act of doing something for someone for which they ask or which they need) (economics, in the plural) service sector (sector of the economy that covers the zone of activities useful to the population) (obsolete, politics) support (assistance which, in the event of a dispute between two states, is provided by a third state to bring the dispute to an end; more generally: acting in someone's interest) (obsolete) service (people providing service) Synonym: służba (obsolete) favor Synonym: przysługa (obsolete) merit, credit, contribution Synonym: zasługa ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Trivia === According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), usługa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 4 times in scientific texts, 17 times in news, 45 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 69 times, making it the 936th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words. === References === === Further reading === usługa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN usługi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN usługa in Polish dictionaries at PWN “USŁUGA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.05.2010 Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “usługa”, in Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “usługa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “usługa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 368