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conscript

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) conscript (noun)
  2. 2) conscript (adjective)
  3. 3) conscript (verb)

1con·script

noun \ˈkän-ˌskript\

Definition of CONSCRIPT

: a conscripted person (as a military recruit)
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Examples of CONSCRIPT

  1. <as the war continued, the body of enlisted soldiers was supplemented by an increasing number of conscripts>

Origin of CONSCRIPT

alteration of French conscrit, from Latin conscriptus, past participle of conscribere to enroll, enlist, from com- + scribere to write — more at scribe
First Known Use: 1799

Related to CONSCRIPT

Synonyms: draftee, inductee, selectee
Related Words: levy; recruit, rookie
Near Antonyms: enlistee, volunteer
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Other Military Terms

bivouac, logistics, petard, salient, sally, supernumerary, tactical

Rhymes with CONSCRIPT

decrypt, encrypt, postscript, prescript, rescript, subscript, tight-lipped, transcript, typescript

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