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conscription
What does conscription mean?
conscription (noun): involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce conscription?
/kənˈskɹɪpʃən/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does conscription come from?
From Middle French conscription, from Latin cōnscriptiō (“levying of troops”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to conscription
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “conscription” mean?
involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority
Right! That's what “conscription” means.
a list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each
Not quite: that's what payroll means.
the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written
Not quite: that's what usage means.
a monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy
Not quite: that's what telescope means.
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