Enlist meaning

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To enter the armed forces.
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To engage the support or cooperation of.
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Enlist is defined as to enroll for service in the military or to find people to join.

An example of to enlist is to join the Army.

An example of to enlist is to sign people up for a volunteer event.

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To engage (persons or a person) for service in the armed forces.
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To participate actively in a cause or enterprise.
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To enroll for service in some branch of the armed forces.
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To win the support of; get the help or services of.

To enlist men in a cause.

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To get (another's help, support, aid, etc.)
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To join some branch of the armed forces.
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To join or support a cause or movement.
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To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
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(intransitive) To join a cause or organization, especially military service.

The army wants potential soldiers to enlist.

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To recruit the aid or membership of others.

We enlisted fifty new members.

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To secure, to obtain.

They enlisted government's support.

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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.

  • 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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