antidraft

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ draft

Adjective[edit]

antidraft (comparative more antidraft, superlative most antidraft)

  1. Opposing the draft (military conscription).
    • 2008 June 15, Jonathan Mahler, “Why This Court Keeps Rebuking This President”, in New York Times[1]:
      He had earlier been the author of the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in a 1919 case upholding the conviction of radicals who had published an antidraft pamphlet during World War I.