conscription

con·scrip·tion (k

n-skr

1. Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.

2. A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.

conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃən]

(Military) compulsory military service

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Noun

conscription - compulsory military service

muster, selective service, draft

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] N → servicio m militar obligatorio, conscripción f (LAm)

conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃ^ən] n → conscription f

conscription

n → Wehrpflicht f; (= act of conscripting) → Einberufung f; (of army) → Aushebung f

conscription [kənˈskrɪpʃ/ən] n → arruolamento (obbligatorio), coscrizione f

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Army organization
call-up
compulsory
conscript
draft
embusqué
Emma Goldman
general
Generalness
Goldman
impressment
in general
levy
levy en masse
militarisation
militarization
mobilisation
mobilization
movement

The actions of Napoleon and Alexander, on whose words the event seemed to hang, were as little voluntary as the actions of any soldier who was drawn into the campaign by lot or by conscription.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

But Princess Betsy could not endure that tone of his-- "sneering," as she called it, using the English word, and like a skillful hostess she at once brought him into a serious conversation on the subject of universal conscription.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

He informed her that she would never see her sweetheart again; for, in order to escape the conscription, he had married a rich old woman, Madame Lehoussais, of Toucques.

A Simple Soul by Flaubert, Gustave View in context

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