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Meanings of conscription in English
Portuguese
conscrição Spanish
conscripción Synonyms
Examples for "drafting"
Examples for "drafting"
1
Sheep farmers are drafting early lambs and meat prices are looking good.
2
It indicated it would work with the government on drafting the legislation.
3
In response, teachers have taken to drafting their wills, just in case.
4
Having so many regulators also makes drafting new rules a tortuous process.
5
Currently, staff at the agency are drafting two potential courses of action.
The compulsory enrolment of people to serve in a country's military, usually for a fixed period of time.
Subject category of the 20th Century Press Archives.
Related terms
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Usage of conscription in English
1
Rye was the principal mover in the famous conscription riots of New-York.
2
The court also controlled centrally the conscription for the general military service.
3
At the Winnipeg Liberal Convention in 1917 he was a coalition-conscription Liberal.
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Estonia has universal conscription, but service in these war zones was voluntary.
5
Enough went as it was in the fear that conscription was coming.
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In the provinces, families marry their sons early to escape the conscription.
7
The opponents of conscription had already made inflammatory attacks on the Government.
8
The conscription act, passed in April, 1862, had kept the ranks full.
9
The East affects conscription, while the curst Are gulled with Fashionate Propensities.
10
There was much excitement at this time over the question of conscription.
11
Most men of twenty-one-theage of conscription-werealready married and had children.
12
But all of a sudden in 1941 conscription appeared and everything changed.
13
To recruit both army and navy, conscription was rigidly and ruthlessly enforced.
14
Four members of the Cabinet, however, resigned as a protest against conscription.
15
What is this you tell me about a conscription and an emperor?
16
There, it is a forced conscription; here, they are volunteers for gayety!
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Translations for conscription
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Conscription through the time
Conscription across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common