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Definition of "selective service" []

  • A system for calling up people for compulsory military service. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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  • "“T” reflects the first person to hold the job in 1972, former director of selective service Curtis W."
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