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conscription

[kuhn-skrip-shuhn] / kənˈskrɪp ʃən /
NOUN
draft
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Sweden has a system of partial conscription, in which all school leavers must register for military service.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Finland has universal male conscription, and some women also volunteer to serve.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Jews came to America in large numbers in the last decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries, fleeing czarist restrictions on their freedom and a 25-year conscription in the Russian army.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

"We interviewed young adults who have left their families behind" to escape conscription, she said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Families who had hidden their boys during the last conscription volunteered them now.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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