In general, a night service is any service that operates at night, such as a night-time public transport service or a 24-hour telephone support service.
Night service in particular is also a feature of private branch exchanges and business telephone systems, whereby for a set period during the day (usually those hours outside of normal office or work hours, when normal operator services are not provided), incoming calls are automatically redirected by the switchboard to particular telephones or other equipment (such as an answering machine, auto attendant, voice mail system, or the duty station of a night watchman).
Famous quotes containing the words night and/or service:
“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the early forties and fifties almost everybody “had about enough to live on,” and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)