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[ verb ] register formally as a participant or member
Examples "The party recruited many new members" Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)In his teens O_'_Banion was enrolled in the vicious Market_Street gang and he became a singing waiter in McGovern's_Cafe , a notoriously low and rowdy dive in North_Clark_Street , where befuddled customers were methodically looted of their money by the singing waiters before being thrown_out . (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)They may even enroll a colored student or two for show , though he usually turns_out to be from Thailand , or any place other_than the American South . (Committee for Economic Development, Distressed...)During World_War 2 , about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities : ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense , and ( 2 ) War Production Training . There is little evidence that existing public or private training_programs have any great difficulty getting students to enroll in their programs , even though they must pay tuition , receive no subsistence payments , and are not guaranteed a job . Related terms register register enlist matriculate unionize registration recruit enrollee |
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