enlistment
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Origin of enlistment
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Enlistment offices are working with universities and social service agencies to lure students and the unemployed.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2023
The United Kingdom's Foreign Enlistment Act, last updated in 1870, blocks citizens from joining foreign militaries fighting countries at peace with Britain, but it has not been applied to modern conflicts.
From Reuters • Mar. 14, 2022
Enlistment is influenced by a number of factors, including inequalities that are increasingly basic to this society, as well as where military recruitment efforts are focused.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2020
An engrossing, action-packed series The series begins with Terms of Enlistment, which Kloos originally self-published in 2013.
From The Verge • Jan. 27, 2018
Yesterday, at the Bidding of Capt. Draper, I took Prince to spend his small Sum for Enlistment on a new Shirt and Breeches.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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