From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishconscriptioncon‧scrip‧tion /kənˈskrɪpʃən/ noun [uncountable] PMwhen people are made to join the army, navy etc SYN draft
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conscription• In 1916 he cited conscription and the suspension of trades union restrictions as things that coalition had done for the nation.• A continuation of wartime industrial conscription was a popular choice.• He suffered discredit by opposing, and then capitulating to, the campaign for military conscription.• There was no conscription, no feeling in my world, of necessity to volunteer.• A quota of ten men a day, and if we accept extra men we can reduce our conscription period.• They would have denied that the conscription law imposed a completely new duty.• They had something to worry about then: conscription.• Paradoxically he is the only free man in the community, as he pays no taxes and is not subject to conscription.• When was conscription introduced in Britain? 