draft board

Noun

Meaning

a board to select personnel for involuntary military service

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Review Board military commissariat military registration and enlistment office military enlistment office conscription agency conscription center recruiting office conscription office cut list recruitment bureau recruitment office armed forces conscription office armed forces recruitment center army conscription office army enlistment office
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Antonyms

easy bar disorder dispute ban discharge
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Hypernyms

board

Examples

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system. Bill Belichick

And four years later, I was standing at the draft board being drafted during the Korean conflict, and then after that there was Vietnam, and it goes on and on forever … I just wonder … does this ever stop? Source: Internet

The draft board was tightening the noose around my neck. Source: Internet

In a detailed report on the Warriors’ outlook for the 2020-21 season and beyond, ‘s Ric Bucher cited an unnamed league source who said that Golden State has the 7-foot-1-inch Wiseman “at the top of their draft board.” Source: Internet

In 1969, Judge MacMahon wrote a letter to Giuliani's draft board, asking that he be reclassified as 2-A, civilian occupation deferment, because Giuliani, who was a law clerk for MacMahon, was an essential employee. Source: Internet

His appeal took four years to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, which in June 1971 reversed the conviction in a unanimous decision that found the Department of Justice had improperly told the draft board that Ali's stance wasn't motivated by religious belief. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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