0 used to describe an activity that is based on services (= doing things for customers) rather than on manufacturing: --
We have also extended capital allowances to aid manufacturing and service-based industries.
We should help not just service-based organisations, but civilian ones.
We must realise that we are dealing with a service-based industry.
The ship repairing industry is service-based, often carried out by small units of between 35 and 100 persons.
The current regulation of training of specialists in medicine is more geared towards service-based clinical training.
The new service-based economy, in the high street providing goods and services, has declined in less than a decade.
They worry that officials will stick rigidly to service-based purchasing from well-established bodies.
A service-based economy has no engine to drive it.