Conscription definition

kən-skrĭpshən
Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.
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A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.
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Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
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An enrolling or registering.
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Noun

Singular:
conscription
Plural:
conscriptions

Origin of conscription

  • From Middle French conscription, from Latin cōnscrÄ«ptiō (“levying of troops").

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Conscription Sentence Examples

  • Great Britain, without conscription, has no means of raising troops in any such proportion.

  • Few soldiers were obtained by the conscription, for the government was as weak as it was tyrannical.

  • The signal for a widespread rising was the introduction of conscription acts for the recruiting of the depleted armies on the eastern frontiers.

  • After the peace of Tilsit the Grand Army was gradually withdrawn behind the Rhine, leaving only three commands, totalling 63,000 men, under Davout in Prussia, Oudinot in west central Germany, and Lefebvre in Bavaria, to assist the princes of the Confederation of the Rhine in the maintenance of order and the enforcement of the French law of conscription, which was rigorously insisted on in all the States comprised in this new federation.

  • Defence.The Spanish army is recruited by conscription.

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