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enlisting

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en·list  (n-lst)
v. en·list·ed, en·list·ing, en·lists
v.tr.
1. To engage (persons or a person) for service in the armed forces.
2. To engage the support or cooperation of.
v.intr.
1. To enter the armed forces.
2. To participate actively in a cause or enterprise.
en·listment n.
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Noun1.enlistingenlisting - the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)
recruitment
accomplishment, achievement - the action of accomplishing something
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"Sir," said the lieutenant, "my serjeant informed me that you are desirous of enlisting in the company I have at present under my command; if so, sir, we shall very gladly receive a gentleman who promises to do much honour to the company by bearing arms in it.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
But in everything I have written there is always one invariable intention, and that is to capture the reader's attention, by securing his interest and enlisting his sympathies for the matter in hand, whatever it may be, within the limits of the visible world and within the boundaries of human emotions.
Typhoon by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Brooke, necessarily, had his agents, who understood the nature of the Middlemarch voter and the means of enlisting his ignorance on the side of the Bill--which were remarkably similar to the means of enlisting it on the side against the Bill.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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