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National service   /nˈæʃənəl sˈərvəs/   Listen
National service

noun
1.
Compulsory service in the military during peacetime.





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"National service" Quotes from Famous Books



... the spectacular publicity that has swept hundreds of millions of British shillings into safe and profitable employment is a Lesson of Preparedness that America may well heed. It means a form of National Service that is just as vital to the general welfare as physical training for actual conflict. A nation trained to save is a nation equipped to meet the shock of economic crisis which is more potent than ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson
... conscience indicated here, and it haunted Mr. Gladstone for nearly all his life, the perplexities of party could be but secondary. Those perplexities were never sharper than in the four years from 1854 to 1859; and with his living sense of responsibility for the right use of transcendent powers of national service, it was practically inevitable that he should at last quit the barren position of 'the one remaining Ishmael ...
— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley


Words linked to "National service" :   war machine, service, armed services, military machine, military, armed forces


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