conscription
IPA: kʌnskrˈɪpʃʌn
noun
- Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
- An enrolling or registering.
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Examples of "conscription" in Sentences
- He advocated the conscription of farmers into the army.
- The school closed with the ending of conscription in 1960.
- The compulsory attendance was abolished, not the conscription.
- However, the principal issue of the campaign was conscription.
- The campaign occurred as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917.
- Their victory was aided by the threat of conscription to the British Army.
- The above paragraph was in the section discussing conscription as slavery.
- The articles conscription and conscription in the United States should help.
- The islands are demilitarised, and the population is exempt from conscription.