enrollment
Americannoun
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enrollments
plural
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the act or process of enrolling.
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the state of being enrolled.
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the number of persons enrolled, as for a course or in a school.
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Origin of enrollment
Explanation
When you sign up for something, like a new school, a medical trial, or a club, that's enrollment. Your enrollment in that art class is dependent on paying your tuition bill first! In voting, enrollment means adding someone's name to the electoral roll after they've registered to vote. And in college, enrollment means the process of matriculating, or formally becoming a student at a university. You can also use this word for the total number of students at a school: "The preschool's enrollment is down this year." Enrollment is from the verb enroll and its Old French source, enroller which means "write in a register."
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Now, enrollment is hitting a low with 792 students, according to US News, and the athletic teams are trying to find that powerhouse status again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
In May, CMS set a six-month national moratorium on hospice-provider enrollment in Medicare.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Through the 1990s, enrollment hovered around 500 but in 2001 it began admitting men, expanded its sports program and boosted enrollment to nearly 2,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Football teams have always been important contributors for enrollment at the junior college level.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Baba's been standing to the side, letting us handle the enrollment.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
The brief says the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA marketplaces, canceled 250,000 unauthorized enrollments and identified 200,000 unauthorized plan switches in 2025.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
CMS also imposed a six-month nationwide freeze External link on new Medicare enrollments for hospices and home health agencies starting mid-May.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
ACA health plan enrollments roughly doubled to 19.3 million from 9.7 million in the three years after the subsidies were increased.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Accounting program heads say they generally haven’t seen a significant decline in master’s enrollments since the law changes, but some have experienced a drop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
One obvious way of accomplishing deseg-regation would have been to shift students among these three schools and change the compositions of their respective enrollments.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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