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enlisted man |
enlisted person |
enlisted woman |
enlistee |
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enlistment
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enlistment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun enlistment has 2 senses
- enlistment(n = noun.time) duty tour, hitch, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty - a period of time spent in military service; Array is a kind of period, period of time, time period
- enlistment(n = noun.act) Array - the act of enlisting (as in a military service); Array is a kind of allegiance, commitment, dedication, loyalty
Derived forms verb enlist1, verb enlist3
has particulars: reenlistment
CIDE DICTIONARY
enlistment, n.
- The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor. [1913 Webster]
- The writing by which an enlisted man is bound. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
enlistment
acceptance, admission, admittance, allurement, baptism, blandishment, booking, cajolement, cajolery, call, call-up, cataloging, chronicling, coaxing, compulsory military service, conning, conscription, continuous tenure, draft, draft call, drafting, engagement, enrollment, entering, entry, exhortation, hitch, hortation, immission, impanelment, impressment, inauguration, indexing, inducement, induction, initiation, inscribing, inscription, insertion, installation, instatement, intromission, inventorying, investiture, jawboning, levy, listing, lobbying, logging, matriculation, mobilization, muster, ordination, persuasion, posting, preaching, preachment, press, prison term, record keeping, recordation, recording, recruiting, recruitment, register, registration, registry, sales talk, salesmanship, selective service, selling, snow job, soft soap, solicitation, stretch, suasion, summons, sweet talk, tabulation, tenure, term, time, tour, wheedling, working on
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