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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: , , ,

  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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to enrol (youths, civilians, etc) for compulsory military service
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦´Ç²Ô·²õ³¦°ù¾±±è³Ù·²¹Â·²ú±ô±ð adjective
  • non·³¦´Ç²Ô·²õ³¦°ù¾±±è³Ù·²¹Â·²ú±ô±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of conscript1

First recorded in 1525–35; from Latin ³¦´Ç²Ô²õ³¦°ùÄ«±è³Ù³Ü²õ “enrolled,†past participle of ³¦´Ç²Ô²õ³¦°ùÄ«²ú±ð°ù±ð “to enroll, enlistâ€; conscribe ( def )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of conscript1

C15: from Latin ³¦´Ç²Ô²õ³¦°ùÄ«±è³Ù³Ü²õ, past participle of ³¦´Ç²Ô²õ³¦°ùÄ«²ú±ð°ù±ð to write together in a list, enrol, from ²õ³¦°ùÄ«²ú±ð°ù±ð to write
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However, there have been reports of conscripts being killed in fighting in Russia's border regions and they were sent to fight in Ukraine in the early months of the full-scale war.

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Then, just like the Confederate slave conscripts, just like the Russian cannon fodder in Bakhmut, they’ll be discarded — forgotten, broken and left to rot in the very ruins they helped create.

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Jim left the town a few years later and never returned after getting conscripted and meeting his wife, Iris Gibbs, while in an army camp in Essex.

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Jordan Bita preferred to risk his life swimming across a roaring river than stay at home and be conscripted by rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Several conscripts from the unit and families of those who were killed have said that they had been warning that an attack was coming in the months before 7 October.

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