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/ɛnlˈɪstɪŋ/ /ɪnlˈɪstɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Enlist v. t. (past & past part. enlisted; pres. part. enlisting)

To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.

To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.

Enlist v. i.

To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.

To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.

noun

enlisting n. The act of getting recruits; convincing people to join the army, take a job, support a cause etc.

Synonyms: recruitment.

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Etymology of 'Enlisting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enlisting" Quotes from Famous Books

... originator whether she tells the stories herself or finds others to carry out her ideas. Make your Story hour the simple and natural expression of the best you have to give and do not attempt more than you can perform. I believe the Story hour is the simplest and most effective means of enlisting the interest of parents and of stirring that active recollection of their own childhood which leads to sharing its experiences with their children. Folk tales told in the language his father and mother speak ...

— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

... at that day were kept up partly by pay from the government, and partly by pay from the regimental fund. There was authority of law for enlisting a certain number of men as musicians. So many could receive the pay of non-commissioned officers of the various grades, and the remainder the pay of privates. This would not secure a band leader, nor good players ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... soldiers never did get down in here that I know of. I know once, when they was enlisting men to go to battle a whole lot of 'em didn't want to fight and would run away and dodge out, and they would follow 'em and try to make 'em fight. They had a battle up here on the Nueces once and killed some of 'em. I know my boss was in the bunch that followed 'em and he got scared for ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Texas Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration

... mainly directed against the Mahomedans. This is partly, no doubt, a legacy of the old days of Mahomedan supremacy. In 1893 some riots in Bombay of a more severe character than usual gave Tilak an opportunity of broadening the new movement by enlisting in its support the old anti-Mahomedan feeling of the people. He not only convoked popular meetings in which his fiery eloquence denounced the Mahomedans as the sworn foes of Hinduism, but he started an organization known as the "Anti-Cow-Killing Society," which was intended ...

— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol

... as history records, we have been afflicted with only two periods of truce. One was when, on hearing of the foul wrong done by the German Brute in Belgium, we united in enlisting recruits for our local regiment. This truce was broken by my worthy friend, the Editor of The Curfew, who pointed out, more in anger than in sorrow, that Ballybun had sent six men fewer than Kilterash. The second truce—again broken by the enemy—concerned ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, February 14, 1917 • Various

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