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conscripted

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According to Harold Marcuse, author of Legacies of Dachau, replacement leader Heinrich Wicker had roughly 560 personnel at his disposal, including Hungarian troops and conscripted inmates from a disciplinary prison inside the camp.

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In his youth, Dovlatov was conscripted to guard one, satisfying the requirement for military service.

He was stopped while trying to return to the U.S. and conscripted.

In the years 1914-18, women flooded into the workplace to take on the toil of men conscripted to fight.

Conscripted to serve, these people are separated from their children only to mother others.

I began thinking about refusing to [be] conscripted into the Israeli Army during the “Cast Lead” operation in 2008.

In two or three hours he came for my decision, and I told him that I had concluded to wait until I was conscripted.

Former laborers had fled or had been conscripted, jailed, or killed.

They fired their rifles and pistols; they caroused and conscripted fighters.

Often a man when conscripted would have sufficient influence to be at once detailed, and would never join his company.

Though "conscripted," as it were, and rather a passive agent, I could see no wrong in the proceeding.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conscripted, such as: compelled, contrived, enforced, involuntary, mandatory, and unwilling.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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