conscription
noun
compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft.
anticonscription
-
a word derived from
conscription.
Example Sentences
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The issue was so explosive that many Congressmen wished it could be dropped until war's end, and that is exactly what anticonscription forces advocated, with one voice.
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