Definition of enlistment in English:

noun

• 1The action of enrolling or being enrolled in the armed services.

  ‘the army relied on voluntary enlistment’

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  • ‘However, too many service members leave the military at the end of their initial enlistment to take advantage of the benefits.’
  • ‘Military personnel were likely to experience repeated exposure to combat in a single enlistment.’
  • ‘Volunteer enlistment is the oldest method of manpower acquisition.’
  • ‘Low enlistment numbers in the nation's military forces once prompted them to hire advertising agencies.’
  • ‘The notion of unfairness has also resulted from the demands of the military for service beyond an agreed or implied enlistment period.’
  • ‘Tonight, the Army National Guard announced an increase in enlistment bonuses designed to attract more recruits.’
  • ‘Enlistment ceremonies also take place at military entrance processing stations across the country.’
  • ‘Moore's tenure at the museum was abbreviated, however, by his enlistment in the United States Navy, probably in 1943.’
  • ‘After forced enlistment in the Bulgarian army, he witnesses the atrocities of war.’
  • ‘The lists engraved in stone during the war of those who had joined up helped encourage further enlistment.’

  1. 1.1The engagement of a person to provide help or support.
     ‘his enlistment of young people in his campaign’
     ‘the enlistment of students in the protests could lead to conflict’
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     • ‘You clearly have higher ambitions, judging by your enlistment of DeVito Verdi as an ad agency.’
     • ‘Schiller, in the second chapter, is his prime example - along with Wordsworth - of the Romantic who resists enlistment into the metaromantic cause.’
     • ‘This enlistment of scientific authority is not surprising - it also occurs in Europe, North America and Australia.’
     • ‘Jesus' sermon on the plain is his enlistment speech for that great crowd of disciples who want to follow him.’
     • ‘Perhaps then Heidegger's biggest crime was not his enlistment in the Nazi Party and assumption of the rectorship of Freiburg.’
     • ‘I told him about Nana's enlistment in Gandhi's movement.’
     • ‘Lefties perfected long ago the enlistment of Jesus in their secular messianic causes.’
     • ‘Through community meetings and the enlistment of volunteers, the city worked with neighborhoods to design solutions to traffic problems.’
     • ‘Bork begins with the observation, "Judicial activism results from the enlistment of judges on one side of the culture war in every Western nation."’
     • ‘This enlistment of religious language to advance our nation's policies is tremendously dangerous.’