selecteen.
/sᵻˌlɛkˈtiː/, U.S. /səˌlɛkˈti/ U.S.
A person selected for military service under the Selective Service system; a draftee. Now chiefly transferred.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > conscript
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chocolate soldier1939
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G.I.1943
national serviceman1949
1940 Army & Navy Register (U.S.) 30 Nov. 7/2 The public considers the percentage of rejections of selectees high.
1942 Newsweek 27 Apr. 41/3 The Selectee is to be given a furlough up to ten days to arrange his personal affairs.
1958 Optima Mar. 47/2 The suspicion remains that the selectee is being favoured because he is regarded as the ‘comer’—the man most likely to succeed in the immediately foreseeable future.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 10 a/3 Most of Carter's selectees..passed in a breeze.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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