armed service

Questions about armed service

What does armed service mean?

armed service means "a force that is a branch of the armed forces".

What is another word for armed service?

Close synonyms include military service, service. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is armed service a common word?

armed service is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.