con·script
ˈkän-ˌskript 
1
: enrolled into service by compulsion : drafted
2
: made up of conscripted persons
con·script
kən-ˈskript
conscripted; conscripting; conscripts
: to enroll into service by compulsion : draft
was conscripted into the army
Examples of conscript in a Sentence
Noun
as the war continued, the body of enlisted soldiers was supplemented by an increasing number of conscripts
Verb
The government is conscripting men for the army.
He was conscripted into the army.
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Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Earlier this month, K-pop superstars RM and V, from the band BTS, became the latest high-profile conscripts discharged from national service.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Aug. 2024
The Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky’s talent as a military organizer gradually turned the ragtag collection of volunteer Red militias into a regular conscript army, and by the fall of 1920, the Whites were thoroughly defeated and dislodged from most Russian territory.
—Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Yet factories in developing countries are often portrayed as hot, uncomfortable, dangerous, and wholly unwelcoming places where workers are conscripted against their interests to toil for the betterment of the faraway West.
—Tony Morley, National Review, 17 June 2025
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Noun
Patel was an early conscript for the Bharat Army, effectively India’s equivalent to the ‘Barmy Army’ group of supporters who have followed England all over the world in their thousands for the past three decades.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Earlier this month, K-pop superstars RM and V, from the band BTS, became the latest high-profile conscripts discharged from national service.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 21 June 2025
Adjective
Russia has reserves of conscript soldiers it is prohibited by its policies from deploying into Ukraine, but could on Russian soil.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Aug. 2024
The Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky’s talent as a military organizer gradually turned the ragtag collection of volunteer Red militias into a regular conscript army, and by the fall of 1920, the Whites were thoroughly defeated and dislodged from most Russian territory.
—Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Verb
The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Yet factories in developing countries are often portrayed as hot, uncomfortable, dangerous, and wholly unwelcoming places where workers are conscripted against their interests to toil for the betterment of the faraway West.
—Tony Morley, National Review, 17 June 2025
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“Conscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscript. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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conscript
1 of 3 adjective
con·script
ˈkän-ˌskript
1
: enrolled into service by force
2
: made up of conscripted persons
conscript
2 of 3 verb
con·script
kən-ˈskript
: to enroll into service by force : draft
was conscripted into the army
conscription
noun
kən-ˈskrip-shən
conscript
3 of 3 noun
con·script
ˈkän-ˌskript
: a conscripted person (as a military recruit)
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