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
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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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Olesia Safronova, Fortune, 26 May 2024
Without it, conscripts are a burden rather than a boon – freezing in the heat of battle or suffering mental breakdowns.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2024
Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Jin, who turned 30 earlier this month, entered the boot camp at Yeoncheon, a town near the tense border with North Korea, for five weeks of basic military training together with other new conscript soldiers, the Defense Ministry said.
—Time, 13 Dec. 2022
Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
At the beginning of World War I, poor Black Malawians, many of them abused and mistreated, were being conscripted to fight the Germans.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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Noun
It was meant to contain a provision limiting the time conscripts serve to three years, in order to appease their families, but that was spiked at the behest of military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi.
—Olesia Safronova, Fortune, 26 May 2024
Without it, conscripts are a burden rather than a boon – freezing in the heat of battle or suffering mental breakdowns.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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
Jin, who turned 30 earlier this month, entered the boot camp at Yeoncheon, a town near the tense border with North Korea, for five weeks of basic military training together with other new conscript soldiers, the Defense Ministry said.
—Time, 13 Dec. 2022
Verb
Meanwhile, a draft law in parliament to widen the parameters of who can be conscripted has undergone thousands of amendments.
—Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
At the beginning of World War I, poor Black Malawians, many of them abused and mistreated, were being conscripted to fight the Germans.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Conscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscript. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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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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