selective service

Questions about selective service

What does selective service mean?

selective service means "an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for selective service?

Close synonyms include Selective Service System, SSS, conscription, muster, draft. 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 selective service a common word?

selective 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.