conscription

English

Etymology

From Latin cōnscrīptiō (“levying of troops”).

Noun

conscription (countable and uncountable; plural conscriptions)

1. involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority
2. An enrolling or registering.
   • Bishop Burnet

     The conscription of men of war.

Translations

involuntary labor, especially military service

• Bulgarian: военна повинност (bg) (voenna povinnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徵兵 (cmn), 征兵 (cmn) (zhēngbīng)

• Czech: odvod (cs) m
• Danish: værnepligt (da)
• Dutch: dienstplicht (nl) f and m
• Finnish: asevelvollisuus (fi)
• French: conscription (fr) f
• German: Wehrpflicht (de) f
• Greek: στρατολόγηση (el) (stratolόghisi) f 

• Icelandic: herkvaðning (is) f
• Japanese: 徴兵 (ja) (ちょうへい, chōhei)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: karinė prievolė (lt) f
• Polish: pobór (pl) m
• Portuguese: conscrição (pt) f, alistamento (pt) m
• Russian: воинская повинность (ru) (vóinskaja povínnost) f , призыв (ru) (prizýv) m , воинская обязанность (ru) (vóinskaja objázannost') f 
• Spanish: reclutamiento (es) m
• Swedish: värnplikt (sv) c, utskrivning (sv) c

See also

• Conscription on Wikipedia.Wikipedia