foreign service

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• Foreign

  ·adj Held at a distance; excluded; exiled. II. Foreign ·adj Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; ...

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• foreign

  Of another country or society; a word used adjectively, being joined with divers substantives in sev...

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• Service

  ·noun The act of serving the ball. II. Service ·- ·Alt. of Service. III. Service ·noun Hence, a mu...

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• service

  The profession; as a general term, expresses every kind of duty which a naval or military man can be...

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• foreign-going

  The ships bound on oceanic voyages, as distinguished from home-traders and coasters. ...

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• foreign judgment

  See judgment. ...

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• foreign remittance

  See wages remitted from abroad. ...

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• Bond service

  ·- The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery. ...

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• Bord service

  ·- Service due from a bordar; bordage. ...

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• Knight service

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Knight's service. II. Knight service ·- A tenure of lands held by knights on cond...

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• Knight's service

  ·add. ·- Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service. II. Knight...

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• Secret service

  ·add. ·- The detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of...

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• Service cap

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Service hat. ...

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• Service hat

  ·add. ·- A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is...

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• Service uniform

  ·add. ·- The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dr...

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• recruiting service

  Robbing on the highway. ...

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• service-berry

  A wild fruit common to the British provinces in America, described by Sir Geo. Simpson as "a sort of...

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• active service

  Duty against an enemy; operations in his presence. Or in the present day it denotes serving on full-...

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• divine service

  Ordered by the articles of war, whenever the weather on a Sunday will allow of it. ...

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• grab service

  Country vessels first employed by the Bombay government against the pirates; afterwards erected into...

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• home-service

  The Channel service; any force, either naval or military, stationed in and about the United Kingdom....

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• long-service

  A cable properly served to prevent chafing under particular use. ...

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• merchant service

  The mercantile marine. ...

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• on service

  On duty. ...

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• preventive service

  The establishment of coast-guards at numerous stations along the shores of the United Kingdom for th...

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• short-service

  Chafing geer put on a hemp cable for a short range. ...

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• foreign remove-ticket

  A document for discharging men from one ship to another on foreign stations: it is drawn up in the s...

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• Civil Service Commission

  ·add. ·- In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members,...

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• Civil Service Reform

  ·add. ·- The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of...

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• Public-service corporation

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Quasi-public corporation. ...

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• continuous service men

  Those seamen who, having entered for a period, on being paid off, are permitted to have leave, and r...

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• mend the service

  Put on more service to the cable, or any part of the rigging chafed. ...

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• points of service

  The principal details of duty, which ought to be executed with zeal and alacrity. ...

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• runners of foreign goods

  Organized smugglers. ...

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• training-ship for the merchant service

  A vessel properly equipped with instructors and means to rear able-bodied lads for the merchant serv...

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