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enlistment /ɛnˈlɪs(t)m(ə)nt /noun [mass noun]1The action of enrolling or being enrolled in the armed services: the army relied on voluntary enlistment...- 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.
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...- 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.
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