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conscription
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synonyms: draft ???
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Definition:1. compulsory military service2. compulsory tax during wartime
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like a skillful hostess she at once brought him into a serious conversation on the subject of universal conscription.
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retired assistant-surgeon-major, compromised about 1812 in certain conscription scandals, and forced at this time to leave the service, had taken advantage of his fine figure to get hold of a dowry of sixty thousand francs
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Rum, and the formation of unhallowed unions with native women, and the brutal conscription of native labour had been the triple-headed enemy Samuel was always in arms against.
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.30 (1935)
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