conscription
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++con·scrip·tion /kənˈskrɪpʃən/ noun [uncountable] PMwhen people are made to join the army, navy etc 征兵 SYN draft
Examples from the Corpus
conscription• In 1916 he cited conscription and the suspension of trades union restrictions as things that coalition had done for the nation.• A continuation of wartime industrial conscription was a popular choice.• He suffered discredit by opposing, and then capitulating to, the campaign for military conscription.• There was no conscription, no feeling in my world, of necessity to volunteer.• A quota of ten men a day, and if we accept extra men we can reduce our conscription period.• They would have denied that the conscription law imposed a completely new duty.• They had something to worry about then: conscription.• Paradoxically he is the only free man in the community, as he pays no taxes and is not subject to conscription.• When was conscription introduced in Britain?con·scrip·tion nounChineseSyllable
join army, to are when Corpus the made people
conscription
con‧scrip‧tion /kənˈskrɪpʃən/
noun [uncountable]
when people are made to join the army, navy etc
SYN draft
■ join the army
▪join up British English, enlist American English to join the army: He joined up when he was 18.
▪be called up British English, be drafted American English to be ordered to serve in the army by the government: He was drafted into the US army in 1943. | Reserve soldiers were being called up.
▪conscription (also the draft American English) a government policy of ordering people to serve in the army: Conscription was introduced in 1916. | He had left the country to avoid the draft.
con‧scrip‧tion /kənˈskrɪpʃən/
noun [uncountable]when people are made to join the army, navy etc
SYN draft
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