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Noun(1) someone who is drafted into military service(2) recruit
Verb(1) enroll into service compulsorily

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(1) A peasant conscript army was established, with weapons being the possessions of the government.(2) The new conscript army must have been rather unattractive for the samurai.(3) Why the officer corps of the army or the conscript regular soldiers were all fired is inexplicable.(4) conscript troops(5) They had adopted the advantages of the new military system encapsulated in the popular conscript army, as Russia, Austria, and, particularly, Prussia undertook military reforms in response to battlefield defeat.(6) The speed with which it had been able to assemble and deploy such a conscript army conferred upon the German Confederation an advantage over the French, who struggled to get a smaller army into the field over a longer period of time.(7) Nor is a conscript army without advantages both for the soldiers and the institution.(8) A conscript army was considered the corollary of a democratic society.(9) It's a conscript army, and the families of the soldiers are suffering more each year.(10) It is no coincidence that the public debate accompanies the transformation of the French military from a conscript force into a professional modern army.(11) But in a conscript army assembled by a dictatorship, the line between civilian and soldier gets blurred, at least by my calculation.(12) If you were conscripted as a common soldier some two hundred years ago, you had to get permission to get married.(13) At present, barely half - 134,000 of 323,000 soldiers - are conscripts completing their military service.(14) The first shows soldiers being conscripted during wartime as victims on an army production line.(15) I was right of course and probably some of their big brothers were conscripted and killed.(16) He had heard stories of deserting conscripts from the Army crossing into the hands of the revolution.