conscription

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
An enrolling or registering.

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conscription conscriptions

From Middle French conscription, from Latin cōnscriptiō (“levying of troops”).

draft

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anticonscription conscriptional nonconscription reconscription

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