serviceware

English

Etymology

From service +‎ -ware.

Noun

serviceware (uncountable)

1. The utensils used for serving food.

   Synonyms: serveware, servingware

   • 2007, Benjamin W. Pearce, Senior Living Communities, page 118:

     Flatware should not be allowed to dry between presoaking and washing. It should be washed with the handles down and stored with the handles up. Serviceware is most efficiently stored in plastic dishwasher racks […]

   • 2022, Johnny Allen, Robert Harris, Leo Jago, Festival & Special Event Management, Essentials Edition, page 296:

     Material that was not recyclable was sent to landfill. In the case of the compostable serviceware that formed part of the compostable waste stream, a scientific monitoring regime was put in place to determine how effective disposal, by way of a small-scale local composting facility, would be in breaking this waste down.

2. (computing, rare) Products and services taken collectively.
   • 2002, Marvin Zelkowitz, Advances in Computers, page 46:

     A component is simply a reusable software executable. Our serviceware clearly includes the software itself, but in addition has many nonfunctional attributes, such as a cost and payment, trust, brand allegiance, legal status and redress, and security.