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conscription

/kənˈskɹɪpʃən/

conscription noun: involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

Noun

conscription (countable and uncountable, plural conscriptions)

  1. Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
    Synonyms:
    draft
  2. An enrolling or registering.
    • conscription of men of war1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]

conscription meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

conscription in Hindi

involuntary labor, especially military service
अनिवार्य सैन्य सेवा anivārya sainya sevā

conscription in Tamil

படைக்குக் கட்டாயம் ஆளெடுக்கும் நிலை

conscription in Urdu

بھرتی, لام بندی, لازمی فوجی بھرتی

conscription in Malayalam

നിർബ്ബന്ധ സൈനികസേവനം, നിർബ്ബന്ധ യുദ്ധസേവനം
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conscription in Arabic
تَجْنِيد إِجْبَارِيّ tajnīd ʔijbāriyy
conscription in Indonesian
wajib militer

Synonyms of conscription

Forms of conscription

pluralconscriptions

Origin of conscription

From Middle French conscription, from Latin cōnscriptiō (“levying of troops”).

Words formed from conscription

Questions about conscription

What does conscription mean?
Conscription means involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
What is conscription in Hindi?
Conscription in Hindi is अनिवार्य सैन्य सेवा (anivārya sainya sevā). See Conscription meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is conscription?
Conscription is a noun.
How do you pronounce conscription?
Conscription is pronounced /kənˈskɹɪpʃən/.
What is the plural of conscription?
The plural of conscription is conscriptions.

Words near conscription in the dictionary

  1. conscriptable
  2. conscripted
  3. conscriptee
  4. conscriptees
  5. conscripting
  6. conscription
  7. conscriptional
  8. conscriptionist
  9. conscriptionists
  10. conscriptions
  11. conscriptive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conscription (page history and authors); conscription (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conscription (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conscription (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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