conscription

English

Etymology

From Middle French conscription, from Latin cōnscriptiō (“levying of troops”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈskɹɪpʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

conscription (countable and uncountable, plural conscriptions)

1. Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

   Synonym: draft

2. 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[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:

     conscription of men of war

Related terms

• conscribe
• conscript

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) (zinapartutʿyun)
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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 f
• Swedish: värnplikt (sv) c, utskrivning 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

Further reading

• “conscription”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• conscription on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Morphologically, a borrowing from Latin cōnscrīptiōnem; however, semantically derived from conscrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.kʁip.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

conscription f (plural conscriptions)

1. conscription

Further reading

• “conscription”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.