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UK
/ɛnlˈɪstmənt/
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[ US /ɛnˈɫɪstmənt/ ]
[ US /ɛnˈɫɪstmənt/ ]
NOUN
- a period of time spent in military service
- the act of enlisting (as in a military service)
How To Use enlistment In A Sentence
- As a retired military officer, Don was able to actually administer the oath of enlistment to his son, which must have been a proud moment.
- The lists engraved in stone during the war of those who had joined up helped encourage further enlistment.
- Perhaps then Heidegger's biggest crime was not his enlistment in the Nazi Party and assumption of the rectorship of Freiburg.
- After forced enlistment in the Bulgarian army, he witnesses the atrocities of war.
- Only by reducing the army and applying higher enlistment standards to all recruits could racial violence be reduced, essential in an army that is now one-third black.
- Canadians seek enlistment in the US Marines because they don't see as much opportunity in the Canadian armed forces.
- This enlistment of scientific authority is not surprising - it also occurs in Europe, North America and Australia.
- Canadians seek enlistment in the US Marines because they don't see as much opportunity in the Canadian armed forces.
- Bork begins with the observation, "Judicial activism results from the enlistment of judges on one side of the culture war in every Western nation."
- Congress approved enlistment bounties totaling $40 for regular recruits plus three months pay in advance and 160 acres of land.