verb
- forcing someone to join the military or other service by law
Usage: present participle of conscript
Examples
- The government is conscripting young men for military service.
- They began conscripting citizens during the national emergency.
- The army was conscripting soldiers from rural areas.
- Many countries stopped conscripting people after the war ended.
- The process of conscripting new recruits took several months.
- Local officials were conscripting workers for the construction project.