compulsory service
Required national obligation
Compulsory service is mandatory duty imposed by government, typically military conscription or national service programs.
Young adults may be required to serve for a set period: Israel has compulsory service for most citizens at age eighteen.
The term also covers court-ordered community service or other legally mandated obligations.
- call-upOrder to serve
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- jury dutyRequired courtroom participation
- draftPreliminary version of text
- draft dodgerOne who avoids compulsory enlistment
duty · mandatory schooling · forced labor · enlistment · reserve duty · conscientious objection · induction · recruitment · basic training · wartime · civil defense · work quotas · national duty · tour · lottery · mandatory · military · patriotism
- feudalismfief, vassal, fealty, homage, lord
- conscriptionconscription, conscript, conscripts, draftee, draftees
- military serviceactive duty, deployment, tour of duty, combat duty, enlistment
- military trainingfield manual, drill instructor, training manual, combat drills, drilling
- propagandapropaganda, brainwashing, disinformation, misinformation, indoctrination
- bondageslavery, bondage, slaves, thrall, chattel
compulsory servicevoluntary enlistment
Unpressured military signup
volunteer service · voluntary service · volunteering · volunteer army · professional army
compulsory serviceexemption
Release from requirement
draft exemption · deferment · discharge · military exemption · opt-out