national service

1. 1.

   compulsory service in the military during peacetime

   Broaderservice

   military

Questions about national service

What does national service mean?

national service means "compulsory service in the military during peacetime".

Is national service a common word?

national 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.