[mass noun]compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces (强制)征召,征募(尤指征兵)
语源
early 19th cent.: via French (conscription was introduced in France in 1798), from late Latin conscriptio(n-) 'levying of troops', from Latin conscribere 'write down together, enrol', from con- 'together' + scribere 'write'