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Definition of National service
1. Noun. Compulsory service in the military during peacetime.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Definition of National service
1. Noun. Compulsory service in the armed forces; conscription ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of National Service
Literary usage of National service
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"Sources of our exports: a graphic presentation of the national service of foreign
trade showing how and why every man, woman and child In the United States ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Outlook 115: 224 F 7 47 national service school Girls in khaki. M. Dadmun. ...
Outlook 115:54U Mr 28 47 Soldier-girls at the national service school. ..."
3. Public Education in the United States: A Study and Interpretation of by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1919)
"... and utilize the opportunities now- presented for new and larger national
service, we shall, in part at least, fail to reach the world position we might ..."
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