a serviceman who holds neither a commission nor a warrant and is not under training for officer rank as a cadet or midshipman
enlisted man in American English
noun
any member of the U.S. armed services who is not a commissioned officer or a warrantofficer, esp. one ranking below a noncommissioned officer or a petty officer
Word origin
[1715–25]
Examples of 'enlisted man' in a sentence
enlisted man
`Sergeant and an enlisted man have a shack where they keep the keys to the transfer pumps and make up the paperwork.