conscription
Meaning of conscription
- compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
conscription was extended to married men
early 19th century: via French (conscription was introduced in France in 1798), from late Latin conscriptio(n- ) ‘levying of troops’, from Latin conscribere ‘write down together, enrol’, from con- ‘together’ + scribere ‘write’.
Information about conscription
- It is a name.
- The plural form of conscription is: conscriptions.
- Languages in which conscription is used:
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Hyphenation of conscription
con-scrip-tion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- conscription is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
conscription synonyms
Meaning muster:
Translation of conscription
- French: conscription
- German: Wehrpflicht
- Spanish: conscripción, mili
- Portuguese: conscrição
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