Conscription
[kən'skrɪpʃ(ə)n] or [kən'skrɪpʃən]
Definition
(n.) An enrolling or registering.
(n.) A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.
(a.) Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Compulsory enlistment of soldiers.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Impressment, drafting
ANT:Enlistment, volunteering
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Examples
- The old way of love seemed a dreadful bondage, a sort of conscription. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The conscription took all of them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He dreamed of a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against _Nature_. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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