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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Keith L. Carter, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
This cosmological intervention is interpreted as a sign that Jaguar Paw and his fellow conscripts should be spared.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 5 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
PCMAG, 20 June 2024
Its recent decision to lower the draft age from 27 to 25 and to start conscripting some convicts will barely shift the current imbalance.
—Keith L. Carter, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
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Noun
While Ukraine spent the summer waiting for weapons, Russia fortified its defensive lines, mobilized a prisoner conscript army, and revitalized its defense industrial base.
—Keith L. Carter, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
This cosmological intervention is interpreted as a sign that Jaguar Paw and his fellow conscripts should be spared.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 5 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
Like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Ashmore is conscripted into a multiversal war involving his nemesis (and Night Springs host), the enigmatic Mr. Door.
—PCMAG, 20 June 2024
Its recent decision to lower the draft age from 27 to 25 and to start conscripting some convicts will barely shift the current imbalance.
—Keith L. Carter, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
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“Conscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscript. Accessed 2 Jul. 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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