Usually means: Refuses military service on principle.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. conscientious objector: Merriam-Webster
  2. conscientious objector: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conscientious objector: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conscientious objector: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conscientious objector: Vocabulary.com
  6. conscientious objector: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. conscientious objector: Wiktionary
  8. conscientious objector: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. conscientious objector: Dictionary.com
  10. Conscientious Objector, Conscientious objector, The Conscientious Objector: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. conscientious objector: Rhymezone
  12. conscientious objector: FreeDictionary.org
  13. conscientious objector: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. conscientious objector: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. conscientious objector: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. conscientious objector: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. conscientious objector: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Conscientious Objector: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conscientious objector: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

(Note: See conscientious_objectors as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (conscientious objector)

noun:  Someone who refuses to perform military service (for example to fight in an armed conflict, or be compulsorily drafted in a time of peace) because of religious or moral principles.

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