conscription

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con·scrip·tion / kənˈskripshən/ • n. compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.ORIGIN: early 19th cent.: via French (conscription was introduced in France in 1798), from late Latin conscriptio(n-) ‘levying of troops,’ from Latin conscribere ‘write down together, enroll,’ from con- ‘together’ + scribere ‘write.’

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