Definition of "conscript" [con•script]

• One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee. (noun)
• Enrolled compulsorily; drafted. (adjective)
• To enroll compulsorily into service; draft. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Posner contends, “Conscription could be described as a form of slavery, in the sense that a conscript is a person deprived of the ownership of his own labor.”"
• "The best tactic for a new conscript is to challenge the old soldiers the first time they attack."
• "In some countries, to be called a conscript or drafted man was considered a stigma, but not so in the South."