noun
definition
One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
example
The soldier was a conscript.
verb
Examples of conscripts in a Sentence
Conscripts of 20 years of age have to serve two years, three months each year.
Every Swedish man belongs to the conscripts (varnpligtige) between the age of 21 and 40, during which time he serves eight years in the first levy, four in the second, and eight in the reserves.
The conscripts were formerly trained for 90 days, but according to the law of 1901, the conscript is bound to serve in time of peace - in the infantry, position artillery, fortress artillery, fortress engineers, and the army service corps a total of 240 days; and in the cavalry, field artillery, field engineers, and field telegraph corps a total of 365 days.
The personnel consists of a cadre, reserve and about 17,000 conscripts.
In connexion with the army reform of 1901 a system of army high schools was proposed for conscripts while serving.
To supply the deficiencies Castelar called out more than roo,000 conscripts, who joined the colours in less than six weeks.
His campaign there is the finest proof of his genius as a general, although he was repeatedly defeated by the English under Wellington, for his soldiers were but raw conscripts, while those of Wellington were the veterans of many campaigns.
In the militia are included soldiers who have served their time in the ranks, and recruits chosen by lot from the yearly contingent of conscripts but not immediately summoned for duty in the field army.
Did anyone give a damn for the Iraqi poor conscripts our troops slaughtered and buried by bulldozers in mass graves?
Almost all the other ranks were young conscripts from various parts of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Even then new conscripts would be very unlikely to be posted to a combat zone.
The last intake of French conscripts completed their military service at the end of 2001.
The Russian army is full of underfed teenage conscripts.
It was very dark and the platform was full of army conscripts.
He was everywhere, encouraging and compelling his men - it is a legend in the French army that the persuasion even of the imperial boot was used upon some of his reluctant conscripts, and in the result his system was fully justified, as it triumphed even against a great tactical surprise.
It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our people and starting to join the army.
Early in January 1813 the senate promised that 350,000 conscripts should be enrolled; but 150,000 of them were under twenty years of age, and mobile columns had to be used to sweep in the recruits, especially in Brittany, the Netherlands and the newly annexed lands of North Germany.
Behind these all Prussia was overrun by newly formed units, (3 rd and 4th battalions) raised from depot companies, conscripts for 1807, and old soldiers rejoining after sickness or wounds.
When the three provinces sent in their first contingent of conscripts in 1877, it was found that all but about sixty knew how to read and write, and succeeding contingents have kept up this high standard.
Thus, even now, 60% of the Sicilian conscripts come up for military service unable either to read or to write.