🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

servizio clienti

Pronunciation / Transliteration: serˈvitsjo kliˈɛnti

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Customer service/ˈkʌs.tə.mər ˈsɜːr.vɪs/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #850 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il servizio clienti ha risolto il mio problema."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The assistance and advice provided by a company to those who buy or use its products or services.

    "The customer-service team was very helpful in resolving my issue."
  2. 2

    A department in a business that deals with customer inquiries and complaints.

    "She works in the customer-service department, handling client feedback."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'customer' (derived from Middle English custom, from Old French costume, ultimately from Latin consuetudo) and 'service' (from Old French service, from Latin servitium, meaning slavery or servitude, evolving through medieval periods to mean the provision of assistance). Together as a compound phrase, it emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the rise of modern retail, consumerism, and corporate consumer support systems.

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