conscription

Noun
  1. Compulsory military service (synset 101160337)
    referred to in: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation
    is a type of: militarisation, militarization, mobilisation, mobilization - act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:
    subtypes: levy, levy en masse - the act of drafting into military service
    same as: draft, muster, selective service

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