Definition of conscript
:a conscripted person (such as a military recruit)
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Examples of conscript in a Sentence
as the war continued, the body of enlisted soldiers was supplemented by an increasing number of conscripts
Recent Examples of conscript from the Web
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But Banner quickly shows her strengths and intelligently conscripts Lambert, an experienced tracker, to aid her.
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A year later, 19 army conscripts were killed when a train derailed near Cairo.
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The story of Hitler Youth teens shooting elderly German conscripts in Berlin who told them to abandon the fight in 1945 comes to mind.
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Rouhani served as a military conscript under the shah though opposing him.
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Rouhani served as a military conscript under the shah though opposing him.
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Rouhani served as a military conscript under the shah though opposing him.
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Rouhani served as a military conscript under the shah though opposing him.
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Rouhani served as a military conscript under the shah though opposing him.
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Origin and Etymology of conscript
alteration of French conscrit, from Latin conscriptus, past participle of conscribere to enroll, enlist, from com- + scribere to write — more at scribe
Definition of conscript
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:enrolled into service by compulsion :drafted
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:made up of conscripted persons
Recent Examples of conscript from the Web
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Under the conscript system, all eligible men are required to serve about two years.
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Thai police have accused ten soldiers of beating a 22-year-old army conscript to death in a military prison.
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Syria’s large Sunni majority dominates the insurgency, and also the army conscript pool.
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First Known Use of conscript
1812
Definition of conscript
transitive verb
:to enroll into service by compulsion :draft
- was conscripted into the army
Examples of conscript in a Sentence
The government is conscripting men for the army.
He was conscripted into the army.
Recent Examples of conscript from the Web
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To that end, Oliver conscripted Will Arnett to create a realistic recruitment ad for those considering joining the border patrol.
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It is understood that many locals were essentially conscripted into ISIS, as soldiers or laborers.
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Those who are conscripted will have been broken in on.
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Many of the boys abducted by Boko Haram are conscripted into the ranks of fighters, says Geoffrey Ijumba, head of the UNICEF field office in Maiduguri.
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They were being conscripted or beaten, or worse, by the government or by Daesh, depending on who was in control that week.
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He was conscripted into the British Army for a brief term of service right after the war, around the same time that the handsome then-teenager began getting extra work in pictures.
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He was conscripted into the British Army for a brief term of service right after the war, around the same time that the handsome then-teenager began getting extra work in pictures.
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She and her colleagues matched medical records for 309,803 children whose fathers were conscripted into the Swedish military with their father’s scores on the technical portion of the Swedish intelligence quotient (IQ) test.
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First Known Use of conscript
1813
CONSCRIPT Defined for English Language Learners
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noun
Definition of conscript for English Language Learners
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: a person who is forced to serve in the armed forces
conscript
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verb
Definition of conscript for English Language Learners
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: to force (someone) to serve in the armed forces
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