Definition of Selective service

1. Noun. An independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service.

Exact synonyms: Selective Service System, Sss
Generic synonyms: Independent Agency

2. Noun. Compulsory military service.
Exact synonyms: Conscription, Draft, Muster
Generic synonyms: Militarisation, Militarization, Mobilisation, Mobilization
Specialized synonyms: Levy, Levy En Masse
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Derivative terms: Conscript, Draft, Muster

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selective Service

selective hypoaldosteronism
selective immunoglobulin A deficiency
selective information
selective inhibition
selective injection
selective jamming
selective lipectomy
selective medium
selective memory
selective mutism
selective mutisms
selective oestrogen-receptor modulator
selective reduction
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
selective service (current term)
selective stain
selective yellow
selectively
selectiveness
selectivenesses
selectivities
selectivity
selectly
selectman
selectmen
selectness
selectnesses
selector
selector gene

Literary usage of Selective service

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Conscription: A Select and Annotated Bibliography by Martin Anderson, Valerie Bloom (1976)
"selective service in Wartime. 1943. selective service System. Washington, DC Charts, tables. 674 pages. Second report of selective service Director Lewis ..."

2. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War by Emmett Jay Scott (1919)
"CHAPTER V THE NEGRO IN THE NATIONAL ARMY selective service Law the Most Complete Recognition of the Citizenship of the Negro, North and South—All the Duties ..."

3. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1919)
"CHEST ROENTGENOLOGY IN THE selective service EXAMINATIONS BY W. WARNER ... EARLY in the examinations under the selective service Act, Cole insisted on the ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1921)
"ARMY AND NAVY <§=>40— PENAL PROVISIONS OF selective service ACTS NOT LIMITED TO ... the second a conspiracy to violate the selective service Law—section 6, ..."

5. Supporting Congressional Oversight: Budgetary Implications of Selected Gao edited by Paul L. Posner (2002)
"Since 1980, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, males between the ages of 18 and 26 have continued registering with the selective service System for a ..."

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