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Someone who is drafted into military service involuntarily.

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Used as a noun, listen here, it means: Someone who is drafted into military service involuntarily. Used as a verb, listen here, it means: To force someone to enroll.

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  • Even then the new conscripts would be very unlikely posted to a combat zone.
  • Adjective : a conscript soldier
  • A law had been passed by the Confederate States Congress called the conscript act.
  • In some countries, to be called a conscript or drafted man was considered a stigma, but not so in the South.
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  • ''conscript" is a heteronym, which means you may find it with different pronunciations and different meanings.
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