service

Work performed. Employment by another. A contraction of military service. A breeding. A person is in the "service" of another when he is so occupied that during the continuance of the relation he is bound to submit his will to the direction and control of that other in the prosecution of that occupation. Cameron v State Theatre Co. 256 Mass 466, 467, 152 NE 880, 881. The term as used in a provision of the Social Security Act defining employment as any service performed by an employee for his employer, means, not only work actually done, but the entire employer-employee relationship for which compensation is paid to the employee by the employer. Social Secur. Board v Nierotko, 327 US 358, 90 L Ed 718, 66 S Ct 637, 162 ALR 1445. As used in the statutes and otherwise in connection with military and naval affairs, the word is an ambiguous one which is used in many senses. When used coupled with the word "active," referring to times of war or national emergency, it has a limited and immediately understandable meaning, but it may be used in a larger and more comprehensive sense, as where a statute refers to a severance of connection with "service" of an officer connected with a particular branch or department of the naval establishment, in which case the naval service as a whole may be signified. 36 Am J1st Mil § 20. See continuous service; military service; public service; services of wife.