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CONSCRIPTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compulsory military service
Synonyms:
conscription; draft; muster; selective service
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("conscription" is a kind of...):
militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conscription"):
levy; levy en masse (the act of drafting into military service)
Derivation:
conscript (enroll into service compulsorily)
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