2 to join (an organization, esp. the armed forces): --
3 to ask someone for help or support, or to ask for and obtain help and support: --
Many had joined before 1914 but their numbers were swelled by their friends and colleagues enlisting in the first rush of wartime patriotism.
He enlists the help of the allied invasion force.
He then enlisted it in repression, using the army against labour, declaring martial law and steadily militarising provincial administration and education.
The latter had a violence of conviction so wondrous in its clarity that numerous psychologists have been enlisted to find something beneath its surface.
We enlisted 126 children: 81 boys and 55 girls.
Smear takers from six general practices were also enlisted to participate in the project.
Her brother enlists the members of the volunteer fire department, up to now better known for misusing public funds for their clubhouse.
A small group of males received vocational training or enlisted in the armed forces.
