enlistment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: en=list=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

enlistment, n. 

•  The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.  [1913 Webster]
•  The writing by which an enlisted man is bound.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

enlistment

acceptance, admission, admittance, allurement, baptism, blandishment, booking, cajolement, cajolery, call, call-up, cataloging, chronicling, coaxing, compulsory military service, conning, conscription, continuous tenure, draft, draft call, drafting, engagement, enrollment, entering, entry, exhortation, hitch, hortation, immission, impanelment, impressment, inauguration, indexing, inducement, induction, initiation, inscribing, inscription, insertion, installation, instatement, intromission, inventorying, investiture, jawboning, levy, listing, lobbying, logging, matriculation, mobilization, muster, ordination, persuasion, posting, preaching, preachment, press, prison term, record keeping, recordation, recording, recruiting, recruitment, register, registration, registry, sales talk, salesmanship, selective service, selling, snow job, soft soap, solicitation, stretch, suasion, summons, sweet talk, tabulation, tenure, term, time, tour, wheedling, working on