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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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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.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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