| NOUN | group | Selective Service, Selective Service System, SSS | an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service |
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| act | selective service, conscription, muster, draft | compulsory military service |
| Meaning | An independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service. | |
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| Synonyms | Selective Service System, SSS | |
| Broader | independent agency | An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments |
| Meaning | compulsory military service. | |
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| Synonyms | conscription, muster, draft | |
| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine | The military forces of a nation |
| Narrower | levy, levy en masse | The act of drafting into military service |
| Broader | mobilization, mobilisation, militarization, militarisation | Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency / emergency |
| Spanish | conscripción, llamada a filas, mili, reclutamiento, revista, servicio militar, servicio militar obligatorio, servicio militar selectivo | |
| Catalan | lleva, servei militar | |
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