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
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Mr Dhlakama had once before laid down his guns, ending a civil war marked by mass atrocities, child conscripts and 1m deaths between 1977 and 1992.
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The movies have been conscripts in this continuing culture war and to look back at 1968 is to understand what has and hasn’t changed.
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Well, one recent study revealed the average height of male army conscripts in the Netherlands—the home of 6-foot-5 goalkeeping great Edwin van der Sar—had grown by 8.3 inches from 1858 to 1997.
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Where cultural walls are now being erected to conscript and steal free speech in America.
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Ownership rates have tumbled in this century, especially after the army cut the number of conscripts by four-fifths.
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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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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
conscripted;
conscripting;
conscripts
: 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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Fearful that his 18-year-old son would get conscripted in Napoleon’s army, the elder Audubon sent John on a ship to America, where his classic immigrant story began.
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He was conscripted as a teenager into the Battle of Berlin, which fell to the Soviets in 1945, ending the Nazi regime and Germany’s involvement in World War II.
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As part of its Obama net neutrality rules, the FCC conscripted the Federal Trade Commission’s online privacy protection duties.
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That would allow the microglia to continue their other important roles in the brain’s housekeeping without conscripting other microglia to help clean up.
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Less than three weeks into the war, Kwon was conscripted into the North Korean military.
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In these states, there is no higher law than progressive cultural orthodoxy and even dissenting citizens can be conscripted into the ideological crusade.
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This park was conscripted to public use in the city’s 1686 charter.
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To help get Icelandic Provisions on Americans’ radars, the group conscripted Steve Platt, who’d played several key roles at Danone Group, which is commonly known as Dannon in the United States.
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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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