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单词 conscript
释义
conscript
verb[T]
mainlyUK
uk
/kənˈskrɪpt/us
/kənˈskrɪpt/
(USusuallydraft)
toforcesomeone toservein anarmyor one of a country'sarmedforces:
He was conscriptedintothearmyat theageof 18.他18岁被征召入伍。
More examples
  • UntilNationalServicecame to an end in about 1960, some of those whorefusedto be conscripted weresenttoprison.
  • TheboysImetthere, some asyoungas 6, had been conscripted -kidnappedis the moreaccurateterm- by arebelarmy.
  • Decliningpopulationscauseenormousproblemsfor conscripting ahealthymilitary.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Joining or leaving the army
  • anti-draft
  • buy
  • buysomeoneout
  • call
  • callsomeoneup
  • commission
  • conscription
  • demob
  • demobilization
  • desert
  • deserter
  • desertion
  • draft dodger
  • enlist
  • enlisted
  • join
  • join up
  • re-enlist
  • re-enlistment
  • re-up
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conscription
conscript
noun[C]
mainlyUK
uk
/ˈkɒn.skript/us
/ˈkɑːn.skript/
(USusuallydraftee)
apersonwho has beenforcedtoservein anarmyor in one of a country'sarmedforces:
Overhalfthearmywascomposedof conscripts.
Compare
volunteernoun
More examples
  • Wewantprofessionalsoldiers, not unmotivated,resistantconscripts.
  • About 40,000regulartroops, 65,000paramilitarytroopsand 35,000 conscripts have been put on highalerttoconfrontanyemergencynear theborder.
  • Theregimewas stillplyingthestreetsof thecapitalto round upyoungmen as conscripts.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Soldiers & people who fight in wars
  • anti-guerrilla
  • Anzac
  • berserker
  • capability
  • cavalryman
  • combat engineer
  • comrade
  • conqueror
  • ex-serviceman
  • ex-servicewoman
  • foot soldier
  • headhunter
  • raider
  • recruit
  • scout
  • shogun
  • skirmisher
  • soldier of fortune
  • squaddie
  • vassal
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conscript
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈkɒn.skript/us
/ˈkɑːn.skript/
relatingto or consisting ofpeoplewho areforcedtoservein anarmyor in one of a country'sarmedforces:
a conscriptarmy
More examples
  • Theoretically, thealliancehas millions of conscripttroopsatitsdisposal.
  • In Vietnam, we had a conscriptmilitary.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Joining or leaving the army
  • anti-draft
  • buy
  • buysomeoneout
  • call
  • callsomeoneup
  • commission
  • conscription
  • demob
  • demobilization
  • desert
  • deserter
  • desertion
  • draft dodger
  • enlist
  • enlisted
  • join
  • join up
  • re-enlist
  • re-enlistment
  • re-up
See more results »
(Definition ofconscriptfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
conscript
verb[T]
uk
/kənˈskrɪpt/us
/kənˈskrɪpt/
(USusuallydraft)
toforcesomeone bylawtoservein one of thearmedforces
征召，招募
He was conscriptedintothearmyat theageof 18.他18岁被征召入伍。

conscript| American Dictionary

conscript
verb[T]
us
/kənˈskrɪpt/
toforcesomeone toworkas amemberof agroup:
Soldiers conscriptedfactoryworkerstobuildawallaround thecity.

conscription

noun[U]us
/kənˈskrɪp·ʃən/
Heemigratedfrom Germany in the 1850s toavoidconscription into thearmy.
conscript
noun[C]
us/'kɑnˌskript/
someone who isforcedtoworkas amemberof agroup:
We werevolunteers, not conscripts.
(Definition ofconscriptfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconscript

conscript
The conscripts were more prone to flee than to fight.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The second of these defined a household as a tax unit : those collectively responsible for tax payments and feudal dues (including the provision of conscripts).
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I wanted government policy to ensure that sterling maintained confidence in the market without support conscripted under an exchange rate mechanism.
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Despite the fact that a war may be unjust, the state nevertheless retains its right toconscriptyoung men and women into military service.
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Following the demobilization of the wartimeconscriptarmy most regular regimental soldiers returned to the cosy familiarities of colonial soldiering.
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How, for example, do the technical practices or styles required by musical worksconscriptmusically performing bodies?
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Overall, less than half of those conscripted returned to their towns and villages.
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Below them were the standbys, mainly captives and conscripts, followed by the under-age combatants.
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They have described how different modalities of veneration have been conscripted for this task.
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There existed, of course, those desperate enough to earn a living by selling themselves as substitute conscripts (mai zhuangding).
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In order to defuse this concern one might start by comparing theconscriptand the teenager with the footballers.
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I shall take the case of theconscriptfirst.
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One of the pools consisted of 13 human sera drawn from conscripts in the study population immediately prior to the influenza vaccination in autumn 1998.
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The state needed obedient and disciplined subjects, and the prison became-alongside the school, theconscriptarmy, and the psychiatric hospital-a disciplining institution.
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The policy did not bring the lasting creation of aconscriptarmy.
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