conscript
Noun:
- A person compulsorily enrolled for military service: A "conscript" is an individual who is legally required to join the armed forces, typically through a draft system, rather than volunteering.
Verb:
- To enroll someone compulsorily into military service: To "conscript" means to legally force someone to serve in the armed forces.
Noun: During the war, the army was largely composed of conscripts. He was a conscript, not a volunteer soldier.
Verb: The government has the authority to conscript citizens in times of national emergency. Young men were conscripted into the navy.
"to be conscripted into": to be compulsorily enrolled into a specific branch or unit of the armed forces. He was conscripted into the infantry.
"conscript labor": labor that is forced or compulsory, not limited to a military context. The regime used conscript labor to build the infrastructure.
Conscription (n): The compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often military service. The policy of conscription was highly controversial.
Draftee (n): (Near synonym) A person conscripted for military service.
- Noun: draftee, inductee.
- Verb: draft, enlist (when referring to compulsory service), call up, mobilize.
- "conscript army": an army whose soldiers are primarily conscripts, not professional volunteers.
- The term primarily relates to compulsory military service. Using it for voluntary enrollment is incorrect.
- As a verb, it is typically used in the passive voice (e.g., "He was conscripted") to describe the person being forced into service.
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someone who is drafted into military service
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enroll into service compulsorily
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The men were conscripted
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