selective service

2 definitions found

selective service - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Selective Service
      n 1: an independent federal agency that administers compulsory
           military service [syn: Selective Service, Selective Service System
           , SSS]
      2: compulsory military service [syn: conscription, muster,
         draft, selective service]

selective service - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "selective service":
     active service, call, call-up, compulsory military service,
     conscription, draft, draft call, drafting, duty, enlistment,
     enrollment, impressment, induction, levy, mobilization, muster,
     national service, press, recruiting, recruitment, service,
     summons