Meaning & use
service-minded
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Meaning
adjectivecomparable
Wanting to help customers or other people and caring about giving them a good experience.
Grammar: Used before a noun or after a linking verb: a service-minded employee; she is very service-minded.
Patterns
- be service-minded
- a service-minded person
- highly service-minded
The hotel looks for service-minded staff who enjoy helping guests.
She is genuinely service-minded and always checks that customers are happy.
A service-minded team can turn a complaint into a loyal customer.
Word forms
| comparative | more service-minded |
|---|---|
| superlative | most service-minded |
Common combinations
- service-minded staff
- The airline trains its service-minded staff to stay calm under pressure.
- highly service-minded
- He is highly service-minded and remembers regular customers by name.
- a service-minded attitude
- A service-minded attitude matters more than perfect English in this job.
- service-minded culture
- The new manager built a service-minded culture across all branches.
Synonyms and how they differ
- helpful
- Helpful is broader and can describe any kind act, while service-minded specifically suggests a focus on customers or clients.
- customer-focused
- Customer-focused stresses business customers, whereas service-minded can also describe volunteers or public workers.
Opposites
Word family
- service noun
- the act of helping customers or the help itself
- service-mindedness noun
- the quality of wanting to help others
Commonly confused: service-minded or servile?
service-minded vs servile
Servile is negative and means too eager to obey; service-minded is positive and means wanting to help.
Practice
Choose the sentence that uses 'service-minded' most naturally.
Choose one answer.
'Service-minded' is an adjective describing people or attitudes, so it fits before 'people'. It cannot describe soup, be used as a verb, or be used as a noun.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “service-minded”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.