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.
The policy did not bring the lasting creation of a conscript army.
The state needed obedient and disciplined subjects, and the prison became-alongside the school, the conscript army, and the psychiatric hospital-a disciplining institution.
One of the pools consisted of 13 human sera drawn from conscripts in the study population immediately prior to the influenza vaccination in autumn 1998.
I shall take the case of the conscript first.
In order to defuse this concern one might start by comparing the conscript and the teenager with the footballers.
There existed, of course, those desperate enough to earn a living by selling themselves as substitute conscripts (mai zhuangding).
They have described how different modalities of veneration have been conscripted for this task.
Below them were the standbys, mainly captives and conscripts, followed by the under-age combatants.