Conscript vs. Soldier — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Conscript and Soldier
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Conscript
Enlist (someone) compulsorily, typically into the armed services
They were conscripted into the army
Soldier
A soldier is one who fights as part of a military. A soldier can be a conscripted or volunteer enlisted person, a non-commissioned officer, or an officer.
Conscript
A person enlisted compulsorily
Conscript troops
Army conscripts
Soldier
One who serves in an army.
Conscript
One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee.
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Soldier
An enlisted person or a noncommissioned officer.
Conscript
Enrolled compulsorily; drafted.
Soldier
An active, loyal, or militant follower of an organization.
Conscript
To enroll compulsorily into service; draft.
Soldier
A nonreproductive ant or termite that has a large head and powerful jaws.
Conscript
One who is compulsorily enrolled, often into a military service; a draftee.
The soldier was a conscript.
Soldier
One of a group of honeybees that swarm in defense of a hive.
Conscript
A constructed script or writing system, especially for use with a conlang.
Soldier
To be or serve as a soldier.
Conscript
Drafted into a military service or similar.
Soldier
To make a show of working in order to escape punishment.
Conscript
Enrolled; written; registered.
Soldier
A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
Conscript
(transitive) To enrol(l) compulsorily; to draft; to induct.
Soldier
An enlisted member of a military service, as distinguished from a commissioned officer.
Conscript
Enrolled; written; registered.
Soldier
A guardsman.
Conscript
One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.
Soldier
A member of the Salvation Army.
Conscript
To enroll, by compulsion, for military service.
Soldier
A low-ranking gangster or member of a gang, especially the mafia, who engages in physical conflict.
Conscript
Someone who is drafted into military service
Soldier
A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip for dipping into a soft-boiled egg.
Conscript
Enroll into service compulsorily;
The men were conscripted
Soldier
A term of approbation for a young boy.
Soldier
Someone who fights or toils well.
Soldier
The red or cuckoo gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).
Soldier
One of the asexual polymorphic forms of termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest.
Soldier
A red herring cured kipper with flesh turned red.
Soldier
(intransitive) To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
Soldier
(intransitive) To serve as a soldier.
Soldier
(intransitive) To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
Soldier
To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.
Soldier
One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
I am a soldier and unapt to weep.
Soldier
Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.
Soldier
A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; - used by way of emphasis or distinction.
Soldier
The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.
Soldier
One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
Soldier
To serve as a soldier.
Soldier
To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.
It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling, or only soldiering.
Soldier
An enlisted man or woman who serves in an army;
The soldiers stood at attention
Soldier
A wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony
Soldier
Serve as a soldier in the military
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