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conscripted

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con·script  (knskrpt)
n.
One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee.
adj.
Enrolled compulsorily; drafted.
tr.v. (kn-skrpt) con·script·ed, con·script·ing, con·scripts
To enroll compulsorily into service; draft.

[Latin cnscriptus, past participle of cnscrbere, to enroll : com-, com- + scrbere, to write; see skrbh- in Indo-European roots.]
Translations
conscripted [kənˈskrɪptɪd] ADJ [labourer etc] → reclutado a la fuerza, forzado
conscripted troopsreclutas mpl, conscriptos mpl (LAm)
conscripted
adj soldiereingezogen, einberufen; troopsaus Wehrpflichtigen bestehend; workers, labourerszwangsverpflichtet


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occurred during the Civil War [1861-1865], when both the North and South conscripted soldiers into their battered armies.
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What began as a trickle in the nineteenth century, with famine-stricken farmers migrating to neighbouring China and Russia, became a tidal wave during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), as millions of Koreans--from conscripted labourers and comfort women to political exiles and students--became scattered throughout Asia and beyond.
 
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