Enlistment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENLISTMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted
• the action of enrolling or being enrolled in the armed services
• the engagement of a person to provide help or support
• The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
• The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.
• a period of time spent in military service
• the act of enlisting (as in a military service)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to secure the support and aid; employ in advancing an interest; to win over; attract

Words related to ENLISTMENT

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Words that contain ENLISTMENT

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How to use ENLISTMENT in a sentence

• Sluggish as they were, and averse to enlistment, the New England troops always rallied when pressing necessity stared them in the face, and fought with tenacious courage.
• Under the confederation, however, congress could only designate the quota of men which each state ought to raise, and the actual enlistment of men was done by the several states.
• Are you now under enlistment in the army or navy? 7.
• The means presented itself in the person of a soldier named Calvin Hall, whose term of enlistment had expired.
• The men came so rapidly that the standard for enlistment was raised.
• Indeed, with the later recruits I gathered the impression that indignation at the German atrocities in Belgium was the prevailing motive in their enlistment.
• Compared with the records taken at time of enlistment or induction into the draft forces, it is shown that the average increase in weight was twelve pounds to a man.
• Those who were Union sympathizers went north into Kentucky and joined the Federal forces, and those on the side of the South went for enlistment in the armies of the Confederacy.
• He served one enlistment with a good record, was a good sailor, and got along well in every respect.
• Three to nine years is the period with the colors, and the remainder of the enlistment is with the Army Reserve.
• By two acts greater activity was given to enlistment into the militia, and that force was carried to its full number.
• He encouraged enlistment in every way, and measures for the support of the Government had all the weight of his influence.
• Twelve years is the term of enlistment in the British navy.
• Massachusetts bore more than her share of the struggle, and in the South the combination of Tory sentiment and the aristocratic social system made enlistment especially difficult.
• The Rhode Island Assembly in 1778 resolved to raise a regiment of slaves, who were to be freed at enlistment, their owners in no case being paid more than L120.
• Here is a call, then, on the country now for the enlistment of ten thousand men, to fill up the regiments in the foreign service of the United States.
• I welcomed him warmly, for by his enlistment he was redeeming his past life.
• Their troops, like our own, are raised by voluntary enlistment for a short period of service with the colours.
• It put a summary stop to the enlistment of Indians and threatened with arrest anyone who should disobey its mandate.
• Incidentally, Robinson, unlike Fremont, was vehemently opposed to Indian enlistment.
• Morton was in his second enlistment, or I surely would have dropped him ahead of his time.
• And I further direct the enlistment for not less than one or more than three years of 18,000 seamen, in addition to the present force, for the naval service of the United States.
• Meanwhile good news had encouraged enlistment for long terms.
• The value of the work will consist in the enlistment of the boys themselves and the participation in and direction of the proposed work by the boys.
• No statement is presented of the bounty received by him upon either enlistment.
• The evidence as to his condition at the time of enlistment, as well as since, seems quite contradictory and unsatisfactory.
• Upon the death of this gentleman the lad was transferred to one Captain Hill, with whom he remained until his enlistment in 1861.
• This claim was rejected in 1877 on the ground that the disability existed prior to enlistment.
• On these examinations there was the usual negative testimony produced of certain parties who knew the claimant before enlistment and did not know that he was afflicted.
• After a thorough examination this claim was rejected on the ground that his disability existed prior to enlistment.

Similar words containing LISTM without suffix ent and without prefix en

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