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
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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.
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Katya Soldak, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Since 2022, Putin has ordered two previous expansions in the number of combat troops, in addition to a mobilization of military reservists and conscripts.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Aug. 2024
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
Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Noun
According to the head of the national draft service, the latest conscripts will serve only in Russia, not in Ukraine.
National.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Since 2022, Putin has ordered two previous expansions in the number of combat troops, in addition to a mobilization of military reservists and conscripts.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
Adjective
Russia has reserves of conscript soldiers it is prohibited by its policies from deploying into Ukraine, but could on Russian soil.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Aug. 2024
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
Verb
Compared to the resistance forces fighting for self-determination and control over their home region, the junta troops, who increasingly include civilians who were forcibly conscripted to support the war effort, are from the outset less motivated to fight.
—Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
The terror group killed thousands, predominantly targeting men and elderly women, while abducting boys to forcibly conscript them as child soldiers.
—Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Conscript.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscript. Accessed 1 Dec. 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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