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Translations conscripted [kənˈskrɪptɪd] ADJ [labourer etc] → reclutado a la fuerza, forzado conscripted troops → reclutas mpl, conscriptos mpl (LAm) conscripted adj soldier → eingezogen, einberufen; troops → aus Wehrpflichtigen bestehend; workers, labourers → zwangsverpflichtet How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| occurred during the Civil War [1861-1865], when both the North and South conscripted soldiers into their battered armies. After graduating from high school in Israel in 1966 she was conscripted, and served in the Israeli military during the 1967 war, doing intelligence work in the Galilee. 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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