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
Synonyms
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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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Aug. 2024
As per Russian law, these conscripts cannot legally be sent into the Ukraine, and should instead be sent to roles inside Russia.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 16 July 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
Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
Female Surrealists fared somewhat better, though the most talented ones were often conscripted into being their husbands’ muses.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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Noun
Many conscripts are still completing the weekslong training process and have yet to reach the front.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Aug. 2024
As per Russian law, these conscripts cannot legally be sent into the Ukraine, and should instead be sent to roles inside Russia.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 16 July 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
Aris commits patricide at the urging of evil Admiral Atticus Noble (Ed Skrein) and is conscripted into the Imperium army — Rebel Moon’s world-dominating villains — yet never mentions his transgression.
—Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
Female Surrealists fared somewhat better, though the most talented ones were often conscripted into being their husbands’ muses.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Conscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscript. Accessed 19 Aug. 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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