conscript:

(plural: ‘conscripts‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)

a person made to serve in one of the armed forces of his/her country by law – taken (recruited) into the armed forces (in military) as a soldier on compulsory basis during the times of war, whether he/she likes it or not;

a draftee,

German conscripts

e.g.

Pedro is a conscript in the Army, and he’s currently under training which will be over in two week.

It is a shame on the part of some countries in the present world which have child conscripts in their armies.

In some countries in Asia, men as young as eighteen are forced to join the rebel forces as conscripts, and it is the other way round in some countries in Africa, where the governments conscript its young generation into armies, and after giving them very little training, they sends these conscripts to fight against well-trained professional enemies and eventually die in the war front.

For an article on the misuse of young conscript, please click here, for an article on the conscripts of the German Army, please click here, and for another item of news about tragedy involving conscripts, please click here.
Note: ‘Conscript’ is also used as a verb to mean ‘to get somebody or oneself into the armed forces, usually on compulsory basis’, e.g. “The Army conscripts (verb) two thousand conscripts (noun) every year.”, and is found more often than the other forms; and the noun form is ‘conscription’ which means ‘the act of getting oneself or somebody into the army’, e.g. ‘The entire conscription process this year is taken up by the Ministry of Defense.

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