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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Decades of studies have found that Head Start raises high-school completion and college enrollment and improved earnings in adulthood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
A previous option, the Fernald Center, closed Sept. 1, 2025, because of enrollment and budget concerns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Older adults can also check their current enrollment information through their account on Medicare.gov.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"States and territories are advised to review" the Trump administration's recommendations on "immunization requirements for contexts such as school enrollment and attendance," the order states.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
They were certain, as well, that their enrollment implied a general social advance for many others of their race off campus.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Additionally, hearing of the institution’s employee strikes, dismissals and downsizing due to lower enrollments, I respectfully declined.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 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
There were 22 million new enrollments and 112 million renewal enrollments in Medicare Advantage from 2014 to 2022, the study found.
From MarketWatch ● 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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