Dictionary Entry
enlist
enlist is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
- 2transitive verb
To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
- 3transitive verb
To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.
- 4intransitive verb
To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.
- 5intransitive verb
To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
- 6verb
join the military
- 7verb
engage somebody to enter the army
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- 8verb
hire for work or assistance
"engage aid, help, services, or support"
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