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conscript

/verb kuhn-skript; noun, adjective kon-skript/US // verb kənˈskrɪpt; noun, adjective ˈkɒn skrɪpt //

征兵,应征者,应征士兵,征召

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to draft for military or naval service.
    • : to compel into service.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a recruit obtained by conscription.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : enrolled or formed by conscription; drafted: a conscript soldier.

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Examples

  • At mobilization points across Russia, the call-up of peasant conscripts often turned into drunken and murderous riots.

  • California is conscripting everyday people in its privacy law enforcement war.

  • They’re assisted on the farm by Polish captives who have been conscripted as Zivilarbeiters, or civilian workers, though in reality they are slave laborers.

  • With the Vietnam War-era draft still in place, opponents immediately zeroed in on the potential for conscripting women, seeing it as one of their best arguments against equal rights.

  • When they descended into a slower number, she successfully conscripted him onto the parquet.

  • It was 1951 and I was a conscript serving in the Royal Air Force.

  • Tribes killing their neighbors and burning their fields were now depriving the Romans of soldiers to conscript and produce to tax.

  • By mid-to-late evening, there was overwhelming evidence that Russia was using a mix of mercenary and conscript forces.

  • The answer, it seems, has to do with the plan to conscript haredi (ultra-Orthodox) youth into the Israeli army.

  • The young conscript seemed to fill the head of Mademoiselle St. Sillery.

  • The Argentine sailor is a land-conscript, laboriously taught an unfamiliar art, which he learns wonderfully well.

  • It was too vast for a citizen, and the locality was no longer sufficiently refined for a conscript father.

  • It is these which explain the two million volunteers which in August, 1914, went to swell the huge German conscript armies.

  • The genius of the race takes the lover conscript and makes him a soldier in life's battalions.