conscript:
(plural: ‘conscripts‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person made to serve in one of the armed forces of his/her country by law – taken (recruited) into the armed forces (in military) as a soldier on compulsory basis during the times of war, whether he/she likes it or not;
a draftee,
German conscripts
Pedro is a conscript in the Army, and he’s currently under training which will be over in two week.
It is a shame on the part of some countries in the present world which have child conscripts in their armies.
In some countries in Asia, men as young as eighteen are forced to join the rebel forces as conscripts, and it is the other way round in some countries in Africa, where the governments conscript its young generation into armies, and after giving them very little training, they sends these conscripts to fight against well-trained professional enemies and eventually die in the war front.
