draftable

American  

[draft-uh-buhl, drahft-] / ˈdræft ə bəl, ˈdrɑft- /

adjective

1. eligible for military conscription; suitable to be selected or required for military service.

2. able to be prepared in an initial form or as a draft, often for later refinement; writable.

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Other Word Forms

• draftability
  noun
• undraftable
  adjective

Example Sentences

The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

He’s on a draftable trajectory right now, as long as the medicals are OK.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

Now nearly every draftable player does some form of combine training.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022

That weekend, Prescott was little more than a consolation prize, and there were even members of the Cowboys’ front office who didn’t even view Prescott as a draftable player then.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021

Thus it may happen that, by reason of bodily or mental infirmity, a father, with a family of helpless children, may be totally dependent upon the exertions of the mother and a draftable son.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various