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enlistment

[en-list-muhnt] / ɛnˈlɪst mənt /
NOUN
conscription
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One intermediary in Nigeria advertised that he charges would-be recruits the equivalent of $3,700, which is due when the visa or enlistment is confirmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Nevertheless, it was given credit for a modest enlistment bump that year.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

The enlistment office rang her a month later to say he had died on 11 February.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

In the words of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Jasper Yeates in a case involving a minor’s enlistment in the Navy, minors could enter into agreements “which may tend to their benefit.”

From Slate • May 29, 2025

He had been within a few weeks of his eighteenth birthday, and with it all chance of enlistment, of choosing a service rather than being drafted into one, would have disappeared.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles