enlist

🇺🇸 /ɪnˈlɪst/ 🇬🇧 /ɪnˈlɪst/
Frequency
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verb
R

to ask someone to help you or join you

We need to enlist more volunteers for the community clean-up.

R

to join the military; to make someone join the military

Many young people choose to enlist in the army after high school.

translation

v. to ask someone to help you or join you; to join the military; to make someone join the military

Word Forms

3rd Present enlists
Past enlisted
Perfect enlisted
Progressive enlisting