| national service | |
| —n | |
| compulsory military service | |
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| Main Entry: | national service |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | compulsory service in the armed forces of some countries, esp. that in the UK between 1949-1960 |
| Example: | Compulsory service may be required in wartime and even in peacetime. |