enrollment
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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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Those categories include Black, Latino, Native American, Alaska Native and Pacific Islander students, according to the UC enrollment report cited in the notice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Charities are also calling on the Department for Health and Social Care to release updated figures on enrollment on the scheme.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Open enrollment season is starting in October, and current and future participants can get an idea of the types of plans available in their areas.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Amid shrinking enrollment, more schools are offering direct admissions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bishop Ambrose Reeves of Johannesburg took the extreme step of closing his schools, which had a total enrollment of ten thousand children.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The program is on track to reach 5,000 total adaptive sports program enrollments in 2027, LA28 said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
Indiana officials plan to announce this week the state is pausing new enrollments of autism-therapy providers with its Medicaid program, said Marcus Barlow, a senior official at the state agency overseeing Medicaid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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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