In article ,
Phil Allison wrote:
In normal usage, Service refers to routine maintenance performed to a
schedule. Repair is an ad hoc event, setting right a fault. Some
repair may occur during a service, but that will be the exception
rather than the rule.

** Then there is the use of the SAME word used as a verb or adjective:

Egs: " service technician ", " service workshop " and the phrase
"sales and service" in relation to electronic goods - all of which are
widely used in the UK.

Just because they are widely used doesn't make that use right. A bit like
using 'engineer' for anyone who can remove a cover plate.

'Service' is used because it sounds better to the amateur than repair.
Very little in the way of electronic goods require servicing - just repair
when they break. A service is done as a routine measure to help prevent
breakdown.

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