services

  • 131Services extérieurs —    Droit administratif: expression désignant par opposition aux bureaux centraux constituant les ministères, les services fonctionnant en dehors de ceux ci, chargés en pratique de l exécution des tâches relevant de chaque ministère …

    Lexique de Termes Juridiques

  • 132services no longer required —    dismissed from employment    The blow is perhaps softened by the implication that the function no longer exists:     I was given a discharge, ostensibly on the grounds that my services were no longer required , this being a curious euphemism.… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms