conscript Definition
con·script (kən skript′; for adj. & n. kän′skript′)
transitive verb
- to enroll for compulsory service in the armed forces; draft
- to force (labor, capital, etc.) into service for the government
Etymology: < conscriptthe
adjective
conscripted
Etymology: L conscriptus, pp. of conscribere, to enroll < com-, with + scribere, to write
noun
a conscripted person; draftee
conscript Related Forms
con·scrip′·tion noun
conscript Synonyms
conscript Synonyms
conscript Usage Examples
Object
- soldier: A nation with the highest number of forcibly conscripted child soldiers in the world.
- man: The House of Commons endorses the government's decision to conscript men of twenty for military service.
- child: Once, we debated another school over the issue of conscripting children into armies.
- army: This tactic wreaked huge casualties on the Central Powers, but tore out the heart of the largely conscript French army.
- people: These problems will be resolved by individuals illuminating the subject through academic insight not by conscripting people to conferences.
Preposition: into
- army: Aged 16 he was a french lad conscripted into the german army by virtue of his German mother.
- force: The young boys were captured and conscripted into the rebel forces and have known only war, shooting and killing since then.
Adjective modifier
- Russian: He is a Russian conscript who was shot in the chin during the battle in Grozny.
- Iraqi: Did anyone give a damn for the Iraqi poor conscripts our troops slaughtered and buried by bulldozers in mass graves?
- young: Almost all the other ranks were young conscripts from various parts of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
- new: Even then new conscripts would be very unlikely to be posted to a combat zone.
- French: The last intake of French conscripts completed their military service at the end of 2001.
- teenage: The Russian army is full of underfed teenage conscripts.
Modifies a noun
- army: In 1914 all the armies of the European powers were conscript armies, all subject to a draft of varying degrees of severity.
- soldier: Several hundred thousand Iraqis, mainly young conscript soldiers were killed in the Gulf War of 1991.
- troop: However, most EU states have too many immobile conscript troops and too few elite forces.
- force: The idea of large conscript forces for territorial defense is out the window really.
Modifying Another Word
forcibly: A nation with the highest number of forcibly conscripted child soldiers in the world.
Noun used with modifier
army: It was very dark and the platform was full of army conscripts.
Infinitive complement
fight: Some were jailed for refusing to be conscripted to fight.
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