enrollee

noun

Definition of enrolleenext
as in draftee

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  1. recruit
  2. veteran
  3. conscript
  4. combatant
  5. reservist
Noun
  • Andrews, 6-7 and 215 pounds, is an ESPN 4-star recruit, the No. 8 small forward and the nation's No. 22 overall prospect for the 2026 class.
    — Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Like Mayfield, Bateman, an LSU recruit, was held out of the Arizona Complex League after the draft but did pitch in back-field games and in the fall instructional league.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Definition of recruit
Noun
  • Citadel stars Game of Thrones veteran Richard Madden and Quantico’s Priyanka Chopra as elite spy agents who had their memories wiped years ago after encountering a shadowy syndicate known as Manticore.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Before the game, Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller said veteran pitcher Yu Darvish was progressing in playing catch, but there was no specific timetable for his return from elbow inflammation.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of veteran
Noun
  • Having earmarked record amounts of government expenditure on the military, Putin's commitment to expanding his armed forces was signaled by Tuesday's announcement of the Russia's highest number of conscripts since 2011—160,000.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Putin on Monday ordered a regular biannual call-up intended to draft 160,000 conscripts for a one-year tour of compulsory military service.
    — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of conscript
Noun
  • Hamas has revised its casualty figures from the Gaza war, removing hundreds of names from its official list of war fatalities, and revealing that 72% of those killed were men aged 13 to 55 – a demographic largely composed of combatants.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • History is replete with examples of tariff wars that destroy international trade and punish—and impoverish—all combatants.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
Definition of combatant
Noun
  • The economy, the Hebrew University economist Joseph Zeira says, is in severe recession—a twenty-per-cent decline in over-all investment, whose impact on unemployment is temporarily offset by a high number of reservists who have been called up for service.
    — Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Tal Steiner, the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, a human rights group, said the charges against the reservists were serious.
    — Adam Rasgon, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of reservist
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