| selective service n. A system for calling up people for compulsory military service. |
selective service
n
(Military) US (formerly) compulsory military service under which men were conscripted selectively
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| Noun | 1. | Selective Service - an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service independent agency - an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments |
| 2. |  selective service - compulsory military service militarisation, militarization, mobilization, mobilisation - act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops" levy en masse, levy - the act of drafting into military service armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
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selective service
n (US) → Wehrdienst m
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