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conscription
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con·scrip·tion  (kn-skrpshn)
n.
1. Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.
2. A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.

conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃən]
n
(Military) compulsory military service
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.conscription - compulsory military serviceconscription - compulsory military service          
militarisation, militarization, mobilization, mobilisation - act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops"
levy en masse, levy - the act of drafting into military service
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
Translations
conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃən] Nservicio m militar obligatorio, conscripción f (LAm)
conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃən] nconscription f
conscription
nWehrpflicht f; (= act of conscripting)Einberufung f; (of army)Aushebung f
conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃn] narruolamento (obbligatorio), coscrizione f


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