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enlistment

/en-list-muhnt/US // ɛnˈlɪst mənt //

征兵,入伍,招募,征募

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the period of time for which one is committed to military service.
    • : an act of enlisting.

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Examples

  • Although the executive order halted further discharges on the basis of gender identity, the directive didn’t explicitly address enlistments or access to transition-related care, such as gender reassignment surgery.

  • He also worried that enlistment terms would soon run out on several thousand of his soldiers, siphoning away his strength.

  • Feely also indicated that the TOW was reliable, citing he had never seen a misfire during his four-year enlistment.

  • The Army is tightening its tattoo standards, a departure from the relaxed rules used to boost enlistment during the Iraq War.

  • He had an earlier, pre-enlistment arrest on a firearms charge as well as a decade-long history of psychiatric problems.

  • Psychiatrists deferred enlistment for more than 1.7 million men before training began.

  • The army was increased from two regiments to nine regiments with an enlistment requiring two years of military service.

  • Finger-prints are made, immediately upon enlistment, of each separate finger and thumb of both hands.

  • The call for men was very heavy in proportion to the population, and high bounties were offered for enlistment.

  • In December the period of enlistment ended; his army was disbanded, and he could not obtain quite 10,000 men to take its place.

  • When the war first broke out, no one thought of any but voluntary methods of enlistment.