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Enlist   /ɛnlˈɪst/   Listen
Enlist

verb
(past & past part. enlisted; pres. part. enlisting)
1.
Join the military.
2.
Hire for work or assistance.  Synonym: engage.
3.
Engage somebody to enter the army.  Synonyms: draft, muster in.  Antonym: discharge.



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"Enlist" Quotes from Famous Books



... "We're going to enlist in King Edward's Horse. They're our kind. Overseas men. Lots of 'em what you dear good people would call bad eggs. There you make the mistake. Perhaps they mayn't be fresh enough raw for a dainty palate—but ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke

... holding this evening a temperance meeting in the Parish Room. I wish, Miss West, that I could persuade you to stay for it, and thus enlist your sympathies in a matter ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley

... perceive, so it's up to us as individuals to try constantly to train ourselves to evaluate a variety as it really is. I feel that much of the success of our organization in the gathering of nut tree varieties has been due to an honest effort towards reporting only facts and we will do well to enlist the aid of our college trained scientific minds to help us individuals in asking ourselves the necessary questions about ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

... called upon Thomas Harrison, and tried to enlist him in their favor by repeating how well James had been treated, and how happy he was in slavery. Friend Harrison replied, in his ironical way, "O, I know very well that slaves sleep on feather beds, while their master's children sleep on straw; that they eat white ...
— Isaac T. Hopper • L. Maria Child

... use about sixteen. If your company is a hundred strong you will have two lieutenants and three ensigns. Be careful in choosing your officers. I will fill in the king's commission to you as captain of the company, authorizing you to enlist men for his service ...
— The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty


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