Noun selective service has 2 senses
  1. Selective Service, Selective Service System, SSS - an independent federal agency that administers compulsory military service
    --1 is a kind of independent agency
  2. conscription, muster, draft, selective service - compulsory military service
    --2 is a kind of mobilization, mobilisation, militarization, militarisation
    --2 has particulars: levy, levy en masse
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