to conscript
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7.2
- verb
- /kənˈskrɪpt/
:
conscribir
- The government decided to conscript eligible citizens to bolster their military forces.
- conscripted soldiers
- conscripted labor
- men to be conscripted
Fighting for, you know, they, they enlisted or were conscripted into the forces and they fought and they died.
- Fighting for, you know, they, they enlisted or were conscripted into the forces and they fought and they died.
- The and So what would happen in in the larger war scenario is that for the first six months, both sides since conscript young men.
- And most of them are the FB is involved in or over in some way and they'll, they will conscript people from the other the state agencies.
Examples
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After the conflict escalated, many young men were conscripted against their will.
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Anyone else remaining here after five minutes... will be forcibly conscripted into the United States Coast Guard.
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We were conscripted as kids.
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They can even conscript us!
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But he knew it would only be a matter of time before he was conscripted into the military.
Academic text (2011) -
Some of you are conscripted.
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- They say the government's going to conscript if you don't get enough volunteers.
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During the First World War, he was conscripted into the Austrian Army and disappeared.
Fiction book (1996) -
They're starting to conscript grandfathers.
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They are conscripting white boys from school straight into the army.
Synonyms
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5.3
To require someone to join the army
To officially add someone to the army as a soldier
Antonyms
How Compulsory
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7.2
- US
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5.3
- Specialized
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4.4
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
To conscript originally meant 'to write together' (from con- 'together' and scribere 'to write'), like putting names on a list for the army, and you can see the same root in scribe and script. So to conscript someone today is to make or force them to join the armed forces, often by law.