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- Dictionarycon·scrip·tion/kənˈskripSH(ə)n/
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- 1. compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces: "conscription was extended to married men"
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]] Conscription (also called The Draft in the United States) is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscription for young men dates to the French Revolution in the 1790s, where it became t... Wikipedia