Definition of conscript
: a conscripted person (such as a military recruit)
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as the war continued, the body of enlisted soldiers was supplemented by an increasing number of conscripts
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Our jones for another Guardians of the Galaxy/’80s fix now makes a conscript of Spielberg, and for that matter Wes Anderson.
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The play’s title is the name of a police conscript, Suliman Khater, who killed seven Israeli tourists in the Sinai Peninsula in 1985.
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Meanwhile, the military also shared that one of the dead was an officer and the other was a conscript.
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The rifle was being carried by more experienced soldiers, while newer soldiers and conscripts were still issued the wartime PPSh submachine guns.
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Unlike the Swedish system, in which conscripts serve for nine to 12 months, the French version, said Mr Macron, would now last from three to six months.
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Tamer al-Rifai, a military spokesman, said three other officers and four conscripts were wounded in the fighting.
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One night last year at an army barracks in Tehran, a tormented young conscript rousted his sergeant from bed and marched him outside at gunpoint.
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Some soldiers on the British side were involuntary conscripts, and the British crown’s policy of in effect kidnapping young men and sending them into battle had roused indignation, contempt, and disgust on the American side.
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Definition of conscript
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: enrolled into service by compulsion : drafted
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: made up of conscripted persons
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The rank-and-file in the new conscript army were brutalised.
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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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Under the conscript system, all eligible men are required to serve about two years.
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First Known Use of conscript
1812
Definition of conscript
: 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.
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His father worked for the railroad before being conscripted into the military.
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His father worked for the railroad before being conscripted into the military.
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There were less than 500 committed Bolsheviks in Russia at the beginning of 1917, including Joseph Stalin, who had been conscripted into the army in late 1916.
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Burnham was imprisoned on mutiny charges for her actions in the Klingon attack, then conscripted aboard Lorca’s Discovery.
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One of those who conscripted as a combat Marine was the 30-year-old Columbia University art instructor Claggett Wilson (1887-1952).
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Mohamed, who lived in Sanaa and was working as a government computer scientist, says the rebels attempted to conscript him into fighting for them.
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In Israel, women with the power are quickly conscripted to use their abilities for national protection.
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The difference is that Sessions believes professional athletes should be conscripted into rituals of militarized patriotism that imbue their owners with a patriotic gloss, but that college students must enjoy unfettered expression.
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First Known Use of conscript
1813
CONSCRIPT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of conscript for English Language Learners
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: a person who is forced to serve in the armed forces
Definition of conscript for English Language Learners
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: to force (someone) to serve in the armed forces
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