nonconscription
English
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editEtymology
editFrom non- + conscription.
Noun
editnonconscription (uncountable)
- Exemption from conscription.
- 2011, Stephen Sharot, Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities, →ISBN:
- An agreement on the "deferral" from army service or nonconscription of a certain number of yeshiva students was reached soon after the establishment of the state, when about 400 haredim were of the age of conscription.
- Failure to serve in the military.
- 1993, Leonore Loeb Adler, International handbook on gender roles, page 151:
- Marriage, pregnancy, and motherhood, however, are grounds for compulsory nonconscription for women while religious conviction is grounds for voluntary nonconscription.
- 2001, Sarah Ozacky-Lazar, Asʻad Ganim, Between two Octobers: the Palestinians in Israel, October 2000-October 2001, page 16:
- On the structural level, this exclusion has many modes, such as the exclusion of the Arabs from the centers of political decision-making, their nonconscription into the army, the non- employment of Arabs in senior positions, the existence of special offices to deal with Arabs, and the attitude that they constitute a security risk.