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NATIONAL SERVICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does national service mean?
• NATIONAL SERVICE (noun)
The noun NATIONAL SERVICE has 1 sense:
1. compulsory service in the military during peacetime
Familiarity information: NATIONAL SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compulsory service in the military during peacetime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("national service" is a kind of...):
service (work done by one person or group that benefits another)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
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