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SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Selective Service System mean?
• SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM (noun)
The noun SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM has 1 sense:
1. an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service
Familiarity information: SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Selective Service; Selective Service System; SSS
Hypernyms ("Selective Service System" is a kind of...):
independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)
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