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Definition of Enlistments
1. enlistment [n] - See also: enlistment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enlistments
Literary usage of Enlistments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Antislavery Measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth by Henry Wilson (1865)
"WILSON'S BILL TO PROMOTE enlistments. — MR. POWELL'S MOTION TO STRIKE OUT THE
... THE third section of the bill to promote enlistments, introduced into the ..."
2. Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American by Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1869)
"The total number of actual enlistments and commissions for army and navy during
the war, excluding colored troops, cannot have differed very much from 2 585 ..."
3. Pennsylvania, Province and State: A History from 1609 to 1790 by Albert Sidney Bolles (1899)
"Re enlistments (3 years' men) I,35P Seven Months' Men 600 Pennsylvania Navy (l
year) 280 Continental Navy and Privateers 2809 Militia, Barrack Men, ..."
4. History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the by Theodore Dwight (1833)
"... with regard to the establishment of some regular system, by which the voluntary
enlistments for the navy may derive occasional enforcement from the ..."
5. Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States by George Ticknor Curtis (1883)
"BRITISH enlistments IN THE UNITED STATES—RECALL OF THE ENGLISH MINISTER AT ...
It is altogether probable that in his efforts to promote enlistments of men ..."
6. The Military Laws of the United States: Relating to the Army, Volunteers by United States, John F. Callan (1868)
"Bounty for re-enlistments. 3. Bounty fur meritorious soldiers, ... and that
soldiers now in the army, who have served one or more enlistments, ..."
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