Cryptic crossword clue
Maintains Army and Navy 8

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SERVICES

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The straight part
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What does SERVICES mean?

SERVICES noun
  1. An act of being of assistance to someone.
  2. The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
  3. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
  4. A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
  5. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
  6. The military.
  7. A set of dishes or utensils.
  8. The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
  9. A religious rite or ritual.
  10. The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
  11. (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
  12. A musical composition for use in churches.
  13. Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
  14. The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
SERVICES verb
  1. To serve.
  2. To perform maintenance.
  3. To inseminate through sexual intercourse
  4. To perform a sexual act.
SERVICES noun
  1. Service tree

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