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   con·scrip·tion

   /kənˈskripSH(ə)n/

   noun

   • 1. compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces: "conscription was extended to married men"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in sense ‘written record or document’): from Latin conscriptio(n-) ‘written record, account’, in late Latin ‘levying of troops’, from Latin conscribere ‘write down together, enroll’, from con- ‘together’ + scribere ‘write’. Military conscription was introduced in France in 1798.

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