conscription

From Middle French conscription, from Latin cōnscriptiō (“levying of troops”).

• IPA^(key): /kənˈskɹɪpʃən/

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conscription (countable and uncountable, plural conscriptions)

1. Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

   Synonym: draft

2. An enrolling or registering.
   • 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:

     conscription of men of war

• conscribe
• conscript

• “conscription”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• conscription on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Morphologically, a borrowing from Latin cōnscrīptiōnem; however, semantically derived from conscrit.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.kʁip.sjɔ̃/

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conscription f (plural conscriptions)

1. conscription

• “conscription”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.