Enlist Definition

ĕn-lĭst
enlisted, enlisting, enlists
verb
enlisted, enlisting, enlists
To enroll for service in some branch of the armed forces.
Webster's New World
To join some branch of the armed forces.
Webster's New World
To engage the support or cooperation of.
American Heritage
To win the support of; get the help or services of.
To enlist men in a cause.
Webster's New World
To join or support a cause or movement.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Enlist

  • en- +‎ list

    From Wiktionary

Enlist Sentence Examples

  • Evidently. I'm wondering why you don't enlist help.

  • He even made a generous, though unsuccessful, endeavour to enlist the support of Cicero.

  • He sought the courts of Tuscany and Naples and tried to enlist Frank sympathies, inventing (probably) the curious myth, so often credited since, that the Druses are of crusading origin and owe their name to the counts of Dreux.1 1 Sophisticated Druses still sometimes claim connexion with Rosicrucians, and a special relation to Scottish freemasons.

  • Aeschines narrates his quarrel with his sweetheart, and is advised to go to Egypt and enlist in the army of Ptolemy Philadelphus; in xv.

  • No portion of the regular army of the Netherlands is allowed to be sent on colonial service, but individual soldiers are at liberty to enlist, by permission of their commanding officers, in the army of Netherlands India, and they form its nucleus.

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Words Starting With

EENENL

Words Ending With

TSTIST

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