conscription

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈskɹɪpʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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

Derived terms

• anticonscription
• conscriptional
• nonconscription
• reconscription

Related terms

• conscribe
• conscript

Translations

involuntary labor, especially military service

Afrikaans: diensplig sg Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: تَجْنِيد إِجْبَارِيّ m (tajnīd ʔijbāriyy) Armenian: զինապարտություն (hy) (zinapartutʻyun) Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: во́інскі абавя́зак m (vóinski abavjázak), во́інская паві́ннасць f (vóinskaja pavínnascʹ), прызы́ў m (pryzýŭ) Bulgarian: вое́нна пови́нност f (voénna povínnost) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: servei militar obligatori m, reclutament forçós m, conscripció f Chinese: Mandarin: 徵兵 / 征兵 (zh) (zhēngbīng) Czech: odvod (cs) m, branná povinnost f Danish: værnepligt c Dutch: dienstplicht (nl) f or m Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: ajateenistus Finnish: asevelvollisuus (fi), asepalvelus (fi) French: conscription (fr) f, service militaire obligatoire m German: Wehrpflicht (de) f, Konskription (de) f Greek: στρατολόγηση (el) f (stratológisi) Hebrew: גיוס (he) (giyús) Hindi: अनिवार्य सैन्य सेवा (hi) (anivārya sainya sevā) Hungarian: sorozás (hu) Icelandic: herkvaðning (is) f Indonesian: wajib militer (id) Italian: coscrizione, arruolamento (it) m, servizio militare obbligatorio m Japanese: 徴兵 (ja) (ちょうへい, chōhei) Kazakh: әскерге шақыру (äskerge şaqyru) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 징병(徵兵) (ko) (jingbyeong) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: karinė prievolė f Macedonian: регрутирање n (regrutiranje) Maori: māperetanga Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: verneplikt m or f Nynorsk: verneplikt f Polish: pobór (pl) m, asenterunek (pl) m (archaic), branka (pl) f (historical) Portuguese: serviço militar obrigatório m, conscrição (pt) f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: во́инская пови́нность f (vóinskaja povínnostʹ), во́инская обя́занность (ru) f (vóinskaja objázannostʹ), призы́в (ru) m (prizýv) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: регрута́ција f Roman: regrutácija (sh) f Slovak: branná povinnosť f, odvod m Slovene: nabor m, vpoklic m Spanish: servicio militar obligatorio m, reclutamiento obligatorio m, reclutamiento forzoso m, conscripción (es) f Swedish: värnplikt (sv) c, utskrivning (sv) c Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: celp (tr) Ukrainian: військо́вий обо́в'язок m (vijsʹkóvyj obóvʺjazok), військо́ва пови́нність f (vijsʹkóva povýnnistʹ), при́зов (uk) m (prýzov) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

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

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

conscription

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.kʁip.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

conscription f (plural conscriptions)

1. conscription

Further reading

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