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English
Etymology
From Middle French conscription, from Latin cōnscriptiō (“levying of troops”).
Pronunciation
Noun
conscription (countable and uncountable, plural conscriptions)
- Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
- Synonym: draft
- An enrolling or registering.
1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: T H for Richard Chiswell, :conscription of men of war
Derived terms
Translations
involuntary labor, especially military service
- Afrikaans: diensplig sg
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: تَجْنِيد إِجْبَارِيّ m (tajnīd ʔijbāriyy)
- Armenian: զինապարտություն (hy) (zinapartutʻyun)
- Belarusian: во́інскі абавя́зак m (vóinski abavjázak), во́інская паві́ннасць f (vóinskaja pavínnascʹ), прызы́ў m (pryzýŭ)
- Bulgarian: вое́нна пови́нност f (voénna povínnost)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: servei militar obligatori m, reclutament forçós m, conscripció f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 徵兵 / 征兵 (zh) (zhēngbīng)
- Czech: odvod (cs) m, branná povinnost f
- Danish: værnepligt c
- Dutch: dienstplicht (nl) f or m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: ajateenistus
- Finnish: asevelvollisuus (fi), asepalvelus (fi)
- French: conscription (fr) f, service militaire obligatoire m
- German: Wehrpflicht (de) f, Konskription (de) f
- Greek: στρατολόγηση (el) f (stratológisi)
- Hebrew: גיוס (he) (giyús)
- Hindi: अनिवार्य सैन्य सेवा (hi) (anivārya sainya sevā)
- Hungarian: sorozás (hu)
- Icelandic: herkvaðning (is) f
- Indonesian: wajib militer (id)
- Italian: coscrizione, arruolamento (it) m, servizio militare obbligatorio m
- Japanese: 徴兵 (ja) (ちょうへい, chōhei)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 징병(徵集) (ko) (jingbyeong)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: karinė prievolė f
- Macedonian: регрутирање n (regrutiranje)
- Maori: māperetanga
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: verneplikt m or f
- Nynorsk: verneplikt f
- Polish: pobór (pl) m, asenterunek (pl) m (archaic), branka (pl) f (historical)
- Portuguese: serviço militar obrigatório m, conscrição (pt) f
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: во́инская пови́нность f (vóinskaja povínnostʹ), во́инская обя́занность (ru) f (vóinskaja objázannostʹ), призы́в (ru) m (prizýv)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: регрута́ција f
- Roman: regrutácija (sh) f
- Slovak: branná povinnosť f, odvod m
- Slovene: nabor m, vpoklic m
- Spanish: servicio militar obligatorio m, reclutamiento obligatorio m, reclutamiento forzoso m, conscripción (es) f
- Swedish: värnplikt (sv) c, utskrivning (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: celp (tr)
- Ukrainian: військо́вий обо́в'язок m (vijsʹkóvyj obóvʺjazok), військо́ва пови́нність f (vijsʹkóva povýnnistʹ), при́зов (uk) m (prýzov)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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Further reading
French
Etymology
Morphologically, a borrowing from Latin cōnscrīptiōnem; however, semantically derived from conscrit.
Pronunciation
Noun
conscription f (plural conscriptions)
- conscription
Further reading
conscription on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
