"customer service" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} customer service (uncountable)
  1. The act of providing services to customers before, during and after a purchase. Tags: uncountable Translations (act of providing services): خِدْمَة اَلْعُمَلَاء (ḵidmat al-ʕumalāʔ) [feminine] (Arabic), 顧客服務 (Chinese Mandarin), 顾客服务 (gùkè fúwù) (Chinese Mandarin), 客服 (kèfú) (Chinese Mandarin), kundeservice [common-gender] (Danish), klantenservice [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), asiakaspalvelu (Finnish), service client [masculine] (French), service clientèle [masculine] (French), service à la clientèle [masculine] (French), Kundendienst [masculine] (German), ügyfélszolgálat (Hungarian), pelayanan pelanggan (Indonesian), seirbhís chustaiméirí [feminine] (Irish), 顧客サービス (kokyaku sābisu) (alt: こきゃくサービス) (Japanese), アフターサービス (afutāsābisu) (note: after service) (Japanese), 고객 서비스 (gogaek seobiseu) (Korean), obsługa klientów [feminine] (Polish), serviço de atendimento ao cliente [masculine] (Portuguese), обслу́живание клие́нтов (obslúživanije klijéntov) [neuter] (Russian), слу́жба рабо́ты с покупа́телями (slúžba rabóty s pokupáteljami) [feminine] (Russian), се́рвис (sɛ́rvis) [masculine] (Russian), služba za korisnike [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), servicio de atención al cliente [masculine] (Spanish), servicio al cliente [masculine] (Spanish), kundtjänst [common-gender] (Swedish), kundservice [common-gender] (Swedish), обслуго́вування кліє́нтів (obsluhóvuvannja klijéntiv) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-customer_service-en-noun-h3hXNMK3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Disambiguation of 'act of providing services': 79 21
  2. A department that provides services to existing customers. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Business Translations (department): 顧客服務部 (Chinese Mandarin), 顾客服务部 (gùkè fúwùbù) (Chinese Mandarin), 客服部 (kèfúbù) (Chinese Mandarin), kundeservice [common-gender] (Danish), klantenservice [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), asiakaspalvelu (Finnish), ügyfélszolgálat (Hungarian), vevőszolgálat (Hungarian), pelayanan pelanggan (Indonesian), perkhidmatan pelanggan (Malay), obsługa klienta [feminine] (Polish), servicio al cliente [masculine] (Spanish), kundtjänst [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-customer_service-en-noun-Hw0Vl8Ei Disambiguation of Business: 33 67 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Disambiguation of 'department': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: customer support, client service

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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "department",
      "word": "vevőszolgálat"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "department",
      "word": "pelayanan pelanggan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "department",
      "word": "perkhidmatan pelanggan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "department",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obsługa klienta"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "department",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "servicio al cliente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "department",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kundtjänst"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "customer service"
  ],
  "word": "customer service"
}

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