CONSCRIPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conscription mean? 

• CONSCRIPTION (noun)
  The noun CONSCRIPTION has 1 sense:

1. compulsory military service

  Familiarity information: CONSCRIPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSCRIPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compulsory military service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conscription; draft; muster; selective service

Hypernyms ("conscription" is a kind of...):

militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conscription"):

levy; levy en masse (the act of drafting into military service)

Derivation:

conscript (enroll into service compulsorily)