conscript
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- noun
- /ˈkɒn.skrɪpt/
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conscripto
- Next came the School of the Platoon, which taught the conscripts how to move and fight as part of a unit.
- Ukrainian conscripts
- conscript brutality
- return of conscripts
You don't need millions of conscripts in the army.
- You don't need millions of conscripts in the army.
- These are not just regular army forces or soldiers conscripts.
- Your life is brutal and short, you know, as a contract, Nikki, or as a as a conscript, it's not good.
- Do they owe the military ever use their own and tragically and horribly use their own conscripts or volunteers?
Examples
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The young conscripts were loaded onto overcrowded transport trains, 40 men to a wagon.
Academic text (2011) -
They are an army of conscripts.
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You were a conscript yourself, weren't you?
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We need more conscripts and more men.
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After nine months, the conscript can take a test for the technician course.
Academic text (1996) -
All officers, soldiers, conscripts and other military figures are relieved of duty.
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Then a larger unit is formed from conscripts, and the unit is added wholesale to the force structure.
Academic text (1996) -
You don't need millions of conscripts in the army.
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Many conscripts deserted their units and some of them joined the rebels.
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During the war, he became a conscript and was sent to the front lines.
Synonyms
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A person who has recently joined a group or the army
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A person who a group or organization officially makes a member
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A person who must join the army because of a draft
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A person who recently joined the armed forces
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A person who recently joined the military and is doing basic training
Antonyms
How Professional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conscript comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and scribere 'to write', the same root you see in scribe and script, and it originally meant someone 'written down' on an army list to serve. That's why a conscript is a person who is forced or enrolled into military service.