Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Compulsory enrollment, especially for the armed forces; draft.
- n. A monetary payment exacted by a government in wartime.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An enrolling or registering.
- n. Specifically A compulsory enrolment by lot or selection of suitable men for military or naval service. This was formerly the prevalent method of recruiting on the continent of Europe; but the system of the universal enrolment of properly qualified persons, and compulsory service according to gradation, has been substituted for it in most countries there.
Wiktionary
- n. involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An enrolling or registering.
- n. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.
- adj. Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.
WordNet 3.0
- n. compulsory military service
Etymologies
- From Latin cōnscrīptiō ("levying of troops"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Another was sentenced to ten years in prison for delivering speeches in which he called conscription unconstitutional.”
“Also, the ancient idea of forcing to people to join your army, i.e. conscription, is an advanced technology that allows you to form units of guys with repeating rifles.”
“Moyers knows conscription is the quickest way to initiate the fundamental changes to foreign policy needed to end the war.”
“Perhaps an under-motivated, under-trained army of the sort that would result from conscription is exactly what this country needs.”
“Involuntary conscription is the answer to their daily pain.”
“A practical and political form of opposition to conscription is the proposal, first put forward, so far as I know, by an American woman,”
“The operational principle in conscription, as the vile Bernard Baruch, head of the Wilson Junta’s War Industries Board, pointed out in August 1918, is that every man’s life is at the call of the nation and so must be every man’s property ….”
“However, military conscription is still so extremely unpopular in this country that it is unlikely that we’ll see it return any time soon (the last time the issue came up in the House it was defeated by 402 to 2 — with Rangel voting against his own resolution).”
“At different points in my life, I’ve also threatened to move to Israel – although moving to a country with mandatory conscription is much less PC.”
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“Military conscription is the sort of thing that might be justified by Michael Walzer’s “supreme emergency” doctrine but you’d need genuine peril to the nation’s existence.”
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Interesting words
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
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the first list
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scribbler, manuscript, script, scripture, scribe, scribble, conscribe, conscription, scripts
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Dark Tower
Words used by Stephen King in The Dark Tower series.
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Difficult words
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