volunteernoun
We want professional soldiers, not unmotivated, resistant conscripts.
About 40,000 regular troops, 65,000 paramilitary troops and 35,000 conscripts have been put on high alert to confront any emergency near the border.
The regime was still plying the streets of the capital to round up young men as conscripts.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Soldiers & people who fight in wars
anti-guerrilla
Anzac
berserker
capability
cavalryman
citizen soldier
comrade
ex-serviceman
foot soldier
headhunter
paramilitary
raider
recruit
scout
shogun
skirmisher
soldier of fortune
unsoldierly
vassal
war party
conscript
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈkɒn.skript/ us /ˈkɑːn.skript/
relating to or consisting of people who are forced to serve in an army or in one of a country's armed forces:
a conscript army
Theoretically, the alliance has millions of conscript troops at its disposal.
In Vietnam, we had a conscript military.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Joining or leaving the army
absent without leave
anti-draft
buy
buy someone out
call
call someone up
cashier
commission
conscription
desert
deserter
desertion
draft
draft dodger
enlist
enlistment
join up
re-enlist
re-enlistment
re-up

conscript | American Dictionary

conscript
verb[ T ]
us/kənˈskrɪpt/
to force someone to work as a member of a group:
Soldiers conscripted factory workers to build a wall around the city.

conscription

noun[ U ]us/kənˈskrɪp·ʃən/
He emigrated from Germany in the 1850s to avoid conscription into the army.
conscript
noun[ C ]
us/'kɑnˌskript/
someone who is forced to work as a member of a group:
We were volunteers, not conscripts.

Examples of conscript

conscript
The conscripts were more prone to flee than to fight.
The second of these defined a household as a tax unit : those collectively responsible for tax payments and feudal dues (including the provision of conscripts).
I wanted government policy to ensure that sterling maintained confidence in the market without support conscripted under an exchange rate mechanism.
Despite the fact that a war may be unjust, the state nevertheless retains its right to conscript young men and women into military service.
Following the demobilization of the wartime conscript army most regular regimental soldiers returned to the cosy familiarities of colonial soldiering.
How, for example, do the technical practices or styles required by musical works conscript musically performing bodies?
Overall, less than half of those conscripted returned to their towns and villages.
Below them were the standbys, mainly captives and conscripts, followed by the under-age combatants.
They have described how different modalities of veneration have been conscripted for this task.
There existed, of course, those desperate enough to earn a living by selling themselves as substitute conscripts (mai zhuangding).
In order to defuse this concern one might start by comparing the conscript and the teenager with the footballers.
I shall take the case of the conscript first.
One of the pools consisted of 13 human sera drawn from conscripts in the study population immediately prior to the influenza vaccination in autumn 1998.
The state needed obedient and disciplined subjects, and the prison became-alongside the school, the conscript army, and the psychiatric hospital-a disciplining institution.
The policy did not bring the lasting creation of a conscript army.
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