conscientious objector

n. Abbr. CO

One who on the basis of religious or moral principles refuses to bear arms or participate in military service.

conscientious objection n.

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conscientious objector

(Military) a person who refuses to serve in the armed forces on the grounds of conscience

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

conscientious objector - one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience

dissenter, dissident, objector, protester, contestant - a person who dissents from some established policy

Translations

odpůrce vojenské služby

militærnægter

Wehrdienstverweigerer

objetor de conciencia

szolgálatmegtagadó

obiettore di coscienza

militærnekter

askerlik karşıtı

由于良心或宗教信仰拒服兵役的人

conscientious objector

n (Mil) → Wehrdienst- or Kriegsdienstverweigerer m (aus Gewissensgründen)

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conscientious objector

n (Mil) → obiettore m di coscienza

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conscientious

(konʃiˈenʃəs) adjective

careful and hard-working. a conscientious pupil.

ˌconsciˈentiously adverb

ˌconsciˈentiousness noun

ˌconscientious obˈjector noun

a person who refuses to serve in the armed forces for moral or religious reasons.

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References in periodicals archive

"[A]n application for classification as a Conscientious Objector may be approved ...

Reclaiming the in-service conscientious objection program: proposals for creating a meaningful limitation to the claim of conscientious objection

During calendar years 2002 through 2006, the active and reserve components reported processing 425 applications for conscientious objector status.

Military Personnel: Number of Formally Reported Applications for Conscientious Objectors Is Small Relative to the Total Size of the Armed Forces

I read with great interest Stacia Brown's article on conscientious objectors in the military ("Valor, Honor, Conscience," September-October 2006).

Refuse to go

Kevin Ramirez, coordinator for the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, a group that advises and supports those in the military seeking the conscientious objector status, long ago accepted the business of the military's recruiting.

Leave us alone: a growing antiwar movement gains momentum

I served as an administration specialist for all of my 26 years, but President Reagan removed the conscientious objector status for military personnel.

Service call

The second case study outlines curricular innovations that protect and honor a PSU oral historian's deep respect for narrators who are conscientious objectors from the Second World War.

Professionalizing community-based research

He was a conscientious objector when America entered the war and worked in forests and later in a mental hospital, where he photographed the patients.

Obituary: David Myers

The OOA and the Hutterites represent one end of the continuum in working toward peace and that is to be a conscientious objector in war time and engage in helping other groups and individuals in times of peace.

War and peace in the curriculum

Karapasiaoglou was led before the military court on 3 January for refusing to report for reserve army duty for the past four years for ideological reasons, landing him with four open cases for which he was found guilty and was refused recognition as a conscientious objector.

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector released

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasaoglu was released from prison on Friday after being sent to prison for not paying a 2000 TL (EUR 360) fine imposed by a military court in the north of Cyprus for refusing to participate in reservist duties.

CYPRUS: Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector freed from jail

His two inspirations were his father, who was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, and the grandfather he never met, who was a conscientious objector during World War One.

Historians have been 'lazy about interpreting how the war went' In his latest Martin Shipton Meets podcast, our chief reporter talks to Dr Aled Eirug, a journalist turned academic who has written a book called The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918

conscientious objector, and has repeatedly urged the release from

"Canada's First Martyr": The Suspicious Death of David Wells, Winnipeg's First-World-War Pentecostal Conscientious Objector