| 单词 | conscription |
| 释义 | conscription (once / 3029 pages) n When a military needs people to fight in a war, but there aren’t enough volunteers, sometimes they'll begin conscription, which is a law that says if you are able to fight, you have to fight. Also called the draft, conscription legally requires people to join the army, with penalties if they don’t. During the Vietnam War, many U.S. citizens protested conscription by burning their draft documents or fleeing to Canada, and some faced prison time because of these actions. The Latin roots of conscription translate to “write down together,” which is a much nicer way of saying “Go to war or go to jail.” WORD FAMILYconscription: conscriptions+/conscript: conscripted, conscripting, conscription, conscripts USAGE EXAMPLESBusiness Insider: Summary executions and forced conscription: Aleppo cease-fire deal reached amid ‘complete meltdown of humanity’ Time(Dec 14, 2016) For all of them, fear of arrest, conscription or summary execution added to the daily terror of bombardment. Reuters(Dec 13, 2016) This is not the country it was during the Civil War, when the first system of conscription was used to build fighting forces. Washington Times(Dec 12, 2016) n compulsory military service Syn|Hypo|Hyper draft, muster, selective service levy, levy en masse the act of drafting into military service militarisation, militarization, mobilisation, mobilization act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops" |
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