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conscript

[ verb kuhn-skript; noun adjective kon-skript ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to draft for military or naval service.

    Synonyms: mobilize, recruit, impress, induct

  2. to compel into service.


noun

  1. a recruit obtained by conscription.

adjective

  1. enrolled or formed by conscription; drafted:

    a conscript soldier.

conscript

noun

    1. a person who is enrolled for compulsory military service
    2. ( as modifier )

      a conscript army

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. tr to enrol (youths, civilians, etc) for compulsory military service
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • con·script·a·ble adjective
  • non·con·script·a·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of conscript1

First recorded in 1525–35; from Latin conscrīptus “enrolled,” past participle of conscrībere “to enroll, enlist”; conscribe ( def )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of conscript1

C15: from Latin conscrīptus, past participle of conscrībere to write together in a list, enrol, from scrībere to write
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Example Sentences

At mobilization points across Russia, the call-up of peasant conscripts often turned into drunken and murderous riots.

From Time

California is conscripting everyday people in its privacy law enforcement war.

From Digiday

They’re assisted on the farm by Polish captives who have been conscripted as Zivilarbeiters, or civilian workers, though in reality they are slave laborers.

With the Vietnam War-era draft still in place, opponents immediately zeroed in on the potential for conscripting women, seeing it as one of their best arguments against equal rights.

When they descended into a slower number, she successfully conscripted him onto the parquet.

It was 1951 and I was a conscript serving in the Royal Air Force.

Tribes killing their neighbors and burning their fields were now depriving the Romans of soldiers to conscript and produce to tax.

By mid-to-late evening, there was overwhelming evidence that Russia was using a mix of mercenary and conscript forces.

The answer, it seems, has to do with the plan to conscript haredi (ultra-Orthodox) youth into the Israeli army.

The young conscript seemed to fill the head of Mademoiselle St. Sillery.

The Argentine sailor is a land-conscript, laboriously taught an unfamiliar art, which he learns wonderfully well.

It was too vast for a citizen, and the locality was no longer sufficiently refined for a conscript father.

It is these which explain the two million volunteers which in August, 1914, went to swell the huge German conscript armies.

The genius of the race takes the lover conscript and makes him a soldier in life's battalions.

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