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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



verb

  1. tr to enrol (youths, civilians, etc) for compulsory military service

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Other Words From

  • 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

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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