ENLISTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enlisting mean? 

• ENLISTING (noun)
  The noun ENLISTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)

  Familiarity information: ENLISTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENLISTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

enlisting; recruitment

Hypernyms ("enlisting" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Derivation:

enlist (engage somebody to enter the army)

 Context examples 

You may be enlisting teammates or co-workers to help.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It involved enlisting around a thousand screened volunteers — including snake-rescuers, naturalists and forestry workers — to upload photograph sightings of India’s four most medically important snakes, along with information such as location, time of day and weather.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)