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selective service

–noun
compulsory military service.

Origin:
1919
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selective service  
n.  A system for calling up people for compulsory military service.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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