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English
Noun
conscientious objector (plural conscientious objectors)
- Someone who refuses to perform military service (for example to fight in an armed conflict, or be compulsorily drafted in a time of peace) because of religious or moral principles.
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Translations
someone refusing to fight in an armed conflict because of religious or moral principles
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: адмо́ўнік m (admóŭnik), адмо́ўніца f (admóŭnica)
- Catalan: objector de consciència m, objectora de consciència m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拒服兵役者 (jù fú bīngyì zhě)
- Dutch: gewetensbezwaarde (nl) m or f, dienstweigeraar (nl) m, dienstweigeraarster f
- Finnish: aseistakieltäytyjä (fi)
- French: objecteur de conscience (fr) m, objectrice de conscience (fr) f
- German: Wehrdienstverweigerer (de) m, Wehrdienstverweigererin f, Wehrdienstverweigerin (de) f, Kriegsdienstverweigerer (de) m, Kriegsdienstverweigererin f, Kriegsdienstverweigerin (de) f
- Greek: αντιρρησίας συνείδησης (el) m or f (antirrisías syneídisis)
- Icelandic: samviskumótmælandi m
- Italian: obiettore di coscienza m, obiettrice di coscienza f
- Japanese: 良心的兵役拒否者 (りょうしんてきへいえききょひしゃ, ryōshintekiheiekikyohisha)
- Korean: 양심적 병역거부자 (yangsimjeok byeong'yeokgeobuja)
- Plautdietsch: Wäaloosa m
- Polish: obdżektor (pl) m
- Portuguese: objetor de consciência m (Brazil), objetora de consciência f (Brazil), objector de consciência m (Portugal), objectora de consciência f (Portugal)
- Russian: отка́зывающийся от призы́ва в а́рмию по убежде́нию m (otkázyvajuščijsja ot prizýva v ármiju po ubeždéniju), отка́зник (ru) m (otkáznik), отка́зница (ru) f (otkáznica), отка́зчик (ru) m (otkázčik), отка́зчица (ru) f (otkázčica)
- Spanish: objetor de conciencia m, objetora de conciencia f
- Swedish: vapenvägrare (sv) c
- Turkish: vicdanî retçi
- Ukrainian: відмо́вник m (vidmóvnyk), відмо́вниця f (vidmóvnycja)
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