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conscription

[kuhn-skrip-shuhn] / kənˈskrɪp ʃən /
NOUN
draft
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Sweden reinstated conscription in 2018 and will call up 9,000 recruits this year, compared with 3,500 in 2018.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Denmark has made women eligible for conscription and extended conscripts’ service to 11 months from four.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Ma Moe San Pan's case highlights a grim mutation of the junta's mandatory conscription laws: mounting pressure from the higher levels of the regime has created perverse incentives further down the chain of command.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Sweden has a system of partial conscription, in which all school leavers must register for military service.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The tsar’s conscription officers had come through months ago and taken inventory of every able-bodied man in the village.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack


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