Synonyms for conscription
kənˈskrɪp ʃəncon·scrip·tion

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1. conscription

   Synonyms:
   impressment, drafting

   Antonyms:
   enlistment, volunteering

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1. conscription, muster, draft, selective servicenoun

   compulsory military service

   Synonyms:
   draught, potation, muster, swig, draft, gulp, bill of exchange, selective service, tipple, drawing, rough drawing, draft copy, order of payment

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1. conscriptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   compulsory enlistment of soldiers

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1. List of paraphrases for "conscription":

   recruitment, enlistment, recruiting

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1. Matthew Smith:

   Investors are extremely unimpressed with their sudden conscription into national service, and you can see that in their share prices.

2. Gerald R. Ford:

   As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)

3. Ben Gumpert:

   Almost every LRA fighter .... by the period 2002-05 had himself or herself been abducted, it is in order to try to strike at that continuing evil that the prosecutor is keen to prosecute crimes arising from conscription.

4. Kateryna Stepanenko:

   Putin seems to lack confidence that polls and protestations of support for the war will survive a general conscription effort. Recruitment for volunteer battalions or covert mobilization only affects a small percentage of servicemen and their families, such separation allows Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to control the appearance of the invasion without upsetting most of the Russian male population and their families.