conscripts's Usage Examples:

The personnel consists of a cadre, reserve and about 17,000 conscripts.

The Russian army is full of underfed teenage conscripts.

Thus, even now, 60% of the Sicilian conscripts come up for military service unable either to read or to write.

These conscripts number about 2000 a year.

Every Swedish man belongs to the conscripts (varnpligtige) between the age of 21 and 40, during which time he serves eight years in the first levy, four in the second, and eight in the reserves.

peacetime army of conscripts which was boosted each year by an annual intake of new men.

In connexion with the army reform of 1901 a system of army high schools was proposed for conscripts while serving.

It was a convoy of conscripts enrolled from our people and starting to join the army.

Behind these all Prussia was overrun by newly formed units, (3 rd and 4th battalions) raised from depot companies, conscripts for 1807, and old soldiers rejoining after sickness or wounds.

When the three provinces sent in their first contingent of conscripts in 1877, it was found that all but about sixty knew how to read and write, and succeeding contingents have kept up this high standard.

Did anyone give a damn for the Iraqi poor conscripts our troops slaughtered and buried by bulldozers in mass graves?ZBC television on Friday showed Minister Chombo preparing to address a crowd of people whose homes had been demolished by government bulldozers.

Early in January 1813 the senate promised that 350,000 conscripts should be enrolled; but 150,000 of them were under twenty years of age, and mobile columns had to be used to sweep in the recruits, especially in Brittany, the Netherlands and the newly annexed lands of North Germany.

Synonyms:

enlist,

Antonyms:

black, female,