Crossword clues for conscription
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conscription \Con*scrip"tion\, n. [L. conscriptio: cf. F. conscription.]
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An enrolling or registering.
The conscription of men of war.
--Bp. Burnet. A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft.
Conscription \Con*scrip"tion\, a. Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "a putting in writing," from Middle French conscription, from Latin conscriptionem (nominative conscriptio) "a drawing up of a list, enrollment, a levying of soldiers," from conscribere "to enroll," from com- "with" (see com-) + scribere "to write" (see script (n.)).\n
\nMeaning "enlistment of soldiers" is from 1520s; the sense "compulsory enlistment for military service" (1800) is traceable to the French Republic act of Sept. 5, 1798. Technically, a conscription is the enrollment of a fixed number by lot, with options of providing a substitute.
Wiktionary
n. 1 involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority 2 An enrolling or registering.
WordNet
n. compulsory military service [syn: muster, draft, selective service]
Wikipedia
Conscription, or drafting, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscription for young men dates to the French Revolution in the 1790s, where it became the basis of a very large and powerful military. Most European nations later copied the system in peacetime, so that men at a certain age would serve 1–8 years on active duty and then transfer to the reserve force.
Conscription is controversial for a range of reasons, including conscientious objection to military engagements on religious or philosophical grounds; political objection, for example to service for a disliked government or unpopular war; and ideological objection, for example, to a perceived violation of individual rights. Those conscripted may evade service, sometimes by leaving the country. Some selection systems accommodate these attitudes by providing alternative service outside combat-operations roles or even outside the military, such as Zivildienst (civil service) in Austria and Switzerland. Most post-Soviet countries conscript soldiers not only for Armed Forces but also for paramilitary organizations which are dedicated to police-like domestic only service ( Internal Troops) or non- combat rescue duties ( Civil Defence Troops) – none of which is considered alternative to the military conscription.
As of the early 21st century, many states no longer conscript soldiers, relying instead upon professional militaries with volunteers enlisted to meet the demand for troops. The ability to rely on such an arrangement, however, presupposes some degree of predictability with regard to both war-fighting requirements and the scope of hostilities. Many states that have abolished conscription therefore still reserve the power to resume it during wartime or times of crisis.
Usage examples of "conscription".
A Sinn Fein rally in Dublin drew men and women from the entire spectrum of nationalism to hear conscription condemned as a declaration of war on the Irish people.
It is the chronicler Newburgh who, in describing the conscription of property, cites the prophet Joel.
It has not been announced or decided in any form by the Provost-Marshal-General, or any one else in authority of the Government, that every citizen who has paid his three hundred dollars commutation is liable to be immediately drafted again, or that towns that have just raised the money to pay their quotas will have again to be subject to similar taxation or suffer the operations of the new conscription, nor it is probable that the like of them ever will be announced or decided.
I were of conscription age and had no dependents and were drafted, I would refuse to serve.
He had butchered Roehm and the SA on a Saturday, he had reintroduced conscription on a Saturday, he had retaken the Rhineland on a Saturday.
Over the intersection where Gordie Wiser had burned the Union Jack after many others had trampled and spit on it the day Ernest Bevin announced his Palestine policy, past the house where the Boy Wonder had been born, stopping to mark time at the corner where their fathers and elder brothers, armed with baseball bats, had fought the Frogs during the conscription riots, the boys came marching.
Manpower resources remained extremely tight The employment of free citizen women in the increasing number of clerical and administrative posts followed, as did peacetime conscription and the raising of the first Janissary legions.
Militia Act of 1792 establishes peacetime conscription and reserve service to age 60.
Women declared liable for peacetime conscription for noncombatant and second-line tasks in Domination.
That very night the conscription descended upon Mahommed Selim, and by sunrise he was standing in front of the house of the Mamour with twelve others, to begin the march to Dongola.
For Fatima thought of the far-off time when she loved Hassan the potter, who had been dragged from his wheel by a kavass of conscription and lost among the sands of the Libyan desert.
It suggested that other slavery, which did not hide itself under the forms of conscription and corvee.
Nolan had started on the Irish question, and Rodney baited him with the prospect of conscription there.
Old Terry Mackenzie had been there one night, and he had asserted not only that war was coming, but that we would be driven to conscription to raise an army.
After a month's debate the conscription law was about to be passed, made certain by the frank statement of the British Commission under Balfour as to the urgency of the need of a vast new army in France.