different between recruitment vs conscription

English

Etymology

recruit +? -ment. French recrutement.

Noun

recruitment (countable and uncountable, plural recruitments)

1. The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.
2. A style or process of recruiting.
3. (biology, ecology) The addition of new recruits to a population.
4. (physiology) The full aeration of a lung.

Derived terms

• derecruitment
• hyperrecruitment
• overrecruitment
• underrecruitment

Related terms

• recruiter

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French conscription, from Latin c?nscripti? (“levying of troops”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?sk??p??n/

Noun

conscription (countable and uncountable, plural conscriptions)

1. Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.

   Synonym: draft

2. An enrolling or registering.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     conscription of men of war

Related terms

• conscribe
• conscript

Translations

Further reading

• “conscription”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• conscription on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Morphologically, a borrowing from Latin c?nscr?pti?; however, semantically derived from conscrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s.k?ip.sj??/

Noun

conscription f (plural conscriptions)

1. conscription

Further reading

• “conscription” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).