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national service

NOUN
Selective Service
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The group was “conceived as national service carried on through business…and the structure of its ownership is what has allowed it to remain so,” Tata said at the board meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

During World War II, the DuPont company turned its scientific and manufacturing capacity to national service, producing munitions, nylon parachutes, Lucite airplane turrets, and many other products for the war effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Murphy lays out a provocative agenda for Democrats to call Americans to national service, break up corporate power, rebuild local communities, and create a bigger tent that reaches disaffected conservatives hungry for change.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Instead, he reasons that he might be assigned other tasks, based on the skills and experience he has gained since his national service two decades ago.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

As an ordinary reasonable man, I must admit that its efforts, if rightly directed, may be of great national service.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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