enlistment

enlist | American Dictionary

enlist
verb
us/ɪnˈlɪst/

enlistverb (JOIN)

[ I ]
to join (an organization, esp. the armed forces):
He enlisted in the air force.
[ I ]
An enlisted man/woman is a person in the armed forces who is not an officer.

enlistverb (ASK FOR HELP)

[ T ]
to ask someone for help or support, or to ask for and obtain help and support:
The program enlists businesses in hiring inner city kids.

Examples of enlist

enlist
The new regime exerted itself in enlisting for itself wealth coupled with talent.
There was also the new trope of shell-shock that was enlisted as a defence.
He proposed that any and all imag ing equipment be enlisted in his quest.
Pairs of siblings, one enlisted as a confederate, engaged in describing events in their mutual childhood.
In the politics of kinship and marriage, the power of the state is regularly enlisted.
The wife had enlisted a considerable amount of support from a variety of sources.
The church can be viewed as an institution that fosters a conventional orientation and enlists adolescents into the traditional networks of the larger society.
A small group of males received vocational training or enlisted in the armed forces.
Her brother enlists the members of the volunteer fire department, up to now better known for misusing public funds for their clubhouse.
Smear takers from six general practices were also enlisted to participate in the project.
We enlisted 126 children: 81 boys and 55 girls.
The latter had a violence of conviction so wondrous in its clarity that numerous psychologists have been enlisted to find something beneath its surface.
He then enlisted it in repression, using the army against labour, declaring martial law and steadily militarising provincial administration and education.
He enlists the help of the allied invasion force.
Many had joined before 1914 but their numbers were swelled by their friends and colleagues enlisting in the first rush of wartime patriotism.
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