Enlistment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enlistment \En*list"ment\, n.
     1. The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted;
        voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
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     2. The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enlistment
       n : a period of time spent in military service [syn: {hitch}, {term
           of enlistment}, {tour of duty}, {duty tour}, {tour}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "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