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selective service

noun

selective service

(formerly) compulsory military service under which men were conscripted selectively

First recorded in 1919

I'm opposed to dictators, myself; that—and the Selective Service law, of course—was why I was a soldier.

This was intensified throughout the land by the operation of the Selective Service Act.

Cadigan Exhibit No. 21 includes the selective service registration certificate we have been discussing, is that correct?

July 20—Drawing at Washington of names for first army under selective service.

Selective Service wanted to eliminate the quota system altogether.

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