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draft board

n. a board to select personnel for involuntary military service

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Draft board

Draft boards are a part of the Selective Service System which register and select men of military age in the event of conscription in the United States.

Usage examples of "draft board".

Or he stays on at Columbia, finishes his doctorate, and his draft board never does pick him up because he is already signed as an assistant professor at N.

The chairman of his draft board is one of these creeps who enjoy hounding a celebrity.

I sold Liberty Bonds and made four-minute speeches and served both on a draft board and a rationing board and made other valuable contributions-until the President called me to Washington, and what I did then was hush-hush and you wouldn't believe it if I told you.

I sold Liberty Bonds and made four-minute speeches and served both on a draft board and a rationing board and made other valuable contributions—.

But if the United States gets in the war, and I think it will, you'll have to make your own arrangements with the draft board.

His back had since healed, something the draft board would likely have overlooked, but for Pearson's frenetic letter-writing campaign to the Army demanding a review of Schine's deferment.