military serviceˌmilitary ˈservice noun [uncountable] 
More and more men are refusing to do military service.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Armed forces: No standing army since 1868; citizens under 60 liable to military service in emergency.
- Franken also avoided military service with student deferments while at Harvard and, ultimately, a high lottery number.
- He had one dose of diphtheria vaccine during military service in 1970.
- It is true that the archbishop's lands were already overstocked with knights in relation to the military service due from them.
- Simply comparing the incomes of those experiencing military service with those who did not will not do.
- They will consider introducing exemptions from or alternatives to military service. 29.
- Why had Hencke been exempted from military service?
Longman Language Activatorwhen people are made to join the army, navy etc
also the draft American when people are officially ordered to join the armed forces, especially during a war: · When was conscription introduced in Britain?avoid/dodge the draft: · Many young men went abroad to avoid the draft.
if someone is conscripted , they are made to join the armed forces by law: · Some of the men were volunteers, but most of them had been conscripted.be conscripted into the army/the armed forces etc: · Many of the young soldiers who were conscripted into the army in World War I did not want to fight.
/national service British the system in which everyone has to be a member of the armed forces for a period of time: · All males between the ages of 18 and 60 were liable for military service.· My father was exempted from military service on the grounds of ill health.· My father was posted to Germany during his national service, and that's where he met my mother.do military service: · Did you have to do military service?
British be drafted American to be officially ordered to join the armed forces during a war: · I was called up three months after the First World War broke out.· Thousands of young Americans were drafted to fight in the war in Vietnam.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY More and more men are refusing to do military service.
the system in which every adult, or every male adult, in a country has to spend a period of time in the army, navy, or air force: More and more men are refusing to do military service. More and more men are refusing to do military service.