0 past simple and past participle of conscript
1 to force someone by law to serve in one of the armed forces:
I wanted government policy to ensure that sterling maintained confidence in the market without support conscripted under an exchange rate mechanism.
Overall, less than half of those conscripted returned to their towns and villages.
They have described how different modalities of veneration have been conscripted for this task.
The picture here is more complex: until the summer of 1942, the police were recruited from volunteers, but after that point conscripted.
Everyone is conscripted into a linear system of measurement in order to make the cyclical replacement more precise, with no conscientious objection tolerated.
As such, they were readily conscripted into stinging critiques of late-capitalist cultural decline.
Their fate can be compared with that of women whose husbands were conscripted into the army.
A large number of workers in retailing and other service industries were conscripted for compulsory work in arms plants.
