0 to force someone to serve in an army or one of a country's armed forces:
1 a person who has been forced to serve in an army or in one of a country's armed forces:
2 relating to or consisting of people who are forced to serve in an army or in one of a country's armed forces:
a conscript army
4 someone who is forced to work as a member of a group:
We were volunteers, not conscripts.
Until National Service came to an end in about 1960, some of those who refused to be conscripted were sent to prison.
The boys I met there, some as young as 6, had been conscripted - kidnapped is the more accurate term - by a rebel army.
Declining populations cause enormous problems for conscripting a healthy military.
We want professional soldiers, not unmotivated, resistant conscripts.
About 40,000 regular troops, 65,000 paramilitary troops and 35,000 conscripts have been put on high alert to confront any emergency near the border.
The regime was still plying the streets of the capital to round up young men as conscripts.
Theoretically, the alliance has millions of conscript troops at its disposal.
In Vietnam, we had a conscript military.
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