conscript verb [ T ] mainly UK uk/kənˈskrɪpt/ us/kənˈskrɪpt/ (US usually draft)
征召,招募to force someone to serve in an army or one of a country's armed forces
He was conscripted into the army at the age of 18. 他18岁被征召入伍。
更多例句- Until National Service came to an end in about 1960, some of those who refused to be conscripted were sent to prison.
- The boys I met there, some as young as 6, had been conscripted - kidnapped is the more accurate term - by a rebel army.
- Declining populations cause enormous problems for conscripting a healthy military.
Related word: conscription