conscripting
Compelling military service
Conscripting is enrolling people into military service by compulsion rather than voluntary enlistment.
Governments conscript during wartime or national emergency: The army began conscripting young men by the thousands.
The word extends to any forced recruitment: They were conscripting volunteers for the cleanup crew—a contradiction that captures the coercive spirit.
Randomized prize distribution
- selectionChosen item or items
- numbersCounting and calculation symbols
- call-upOrder to serve
- summonsFormal court notification
notification · registration · eligibility · quota · census · classification · deferment · exemption
Organizing for action
- levyCompulsory government charge
- inductionFormal admission process
- armyOrganized land-based military
- navyMaritime military force
airforce · marines · infantry · regiment · battalion · division · platoon · brigade
Required, not optional
- mandatoryRequired by rule
- involuntaryNot under conscious control
- forcedMade to occur unwillingly
- coercedPressured into compliance
compelled · commandeered · imposed · enforced · unwilling · press-ganged · impressed · shanghaied
Required moral task
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
- citizenshipStatus as state member
allegiance · tour · enlistment · term · assignment · posting · sacrifice · honor
lottery
Randomized prize distribution
summons · notification · registration · eligibility · quota · census · classification · deferment · exemption · board
mobilization
Organizing for action
navy · airforce · marines · infantry · regiment · battalion · division · platoon · brigade · squadron
compulsory
Required, not optional
- mandatoryRequired by rule
- involuntaryNot under conscious control
- forcedMade to occur unwillingly
coerced · compelled · commandeered · imposed · enforced · unwilling · press-ganged · impressed · shanghaied · dragooned
duty
Required moral task
- obligationRequired task or commitment
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
citizenship · allegiance · tour · enlistment · term · assignment · posting · sacrifice · honor · country
inductee
One formally admitted
cadet · rookie · raw · green · untrained · private · enlistee · selectee · mustered · intake
conscriptingvolunteering
Giving service without pay
signing up · enlisting · recruiting · opting in · hiring
conscriptingdischarging
Releasing or letting go
releasing · demobilizing · mustering out · dismissing · freeing
- military conscriptionMandatory enlistment in forces
- universal conscriptionRequired military duty for all
- conscription papersMandatory military service notice