enroll

especially British, en·rol

[en-rohl]

verb (used with object)

enrolled, enrolling 

1. to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register.

   It took two days to enroll the new students.

2. to enlist (oneself ).

3. to put in a record; record.

   to enroll the minutes of a meeting; to enroll the great events of history.

4. to roll or wrap up.

   fruit enrolled in tissue paper.

5. Nautical.,  to document (a U.S. vessel) by issuing a certificate of enrollment.

verb (used without object)

enrolled, enrolling 

1. to enroll oneself.

   He enrolled in college last week.

Other Word Forms

• enroller noun
• preenroll verb
• reenroll verb

Word History and Origins

Origin of enroll¹

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English enrollen, from Old French enroller. See en- ¹, roll

Example Sentences

His success there led to a scholarship at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he enrolled in 1939.

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That period is only available to people currently enrolled in Medicare Advantage, but it does allow beneficiaries to switch between Medicare Advantage plans or back to Original Medicare.

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He was so precociously good that when he was 13, Doncic’s mother, Mirjam Poterbin, took her son to Spain to enroll in an athletic academy that would change his life: Real Madrid.

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“The evidence showed that Amazon used sophisticated subscription traps designed to manipulate consumers into enrolling in Prime, and then made it exceedingly hard for consumers to end their subscription,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said.

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But before he’d even enrolled in high school, Stewart had his choice of almost every major program in college football.

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Related Words

• accept 
• admit 
• employ 
• engage 
• enlist 
• enter 
• join 
• obtain 
• recruit 
• register