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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enrol
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enrol on a course/put your name down for a courseBritish English (= to arrange to officially join a course)
▪ How about enrolling on a sailing course?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
class
▪ In many areas, it is possible to enrol for adult education classes in archaeology.
▪ Many have enrolled in self-defense classes.
▪ George Bush's three-year-old grandchild, Marshal, has been enrolled in an etiquette class, Petite Protocol.
▪ He saw it in the low number of minority students enrolled in honors classes.
▪ Twenty-six racial equality officers came to the university to enrol in classes for the first ever diploma in race and community relations.
▪ Q: My 6-year-old son has been enrolled in a karate class for almost a year.
▪ By 1930, more than 500 students had enrolled in classes at some twenty-six rural centres.
college
▪ She has also considered re-training and thought about enrolling for a college course.
▪ After a year he had enrolled at City College, which he had learned of through a cousin who was attending.
▪ Finally I was enrolled at the Royal College of Physicians.
▪ Today a record 62 percent of high school graduates are enrolled in colleges the following fall.
▪ The proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college jumped from 49 percent in 1980 to 62 percent in 1992.
▪ In 1996 he was enrolled in a community college in Arizona.
▪ Several years ago she enrolled at Hunter College.
▪ In 1966, Arturo Rosales had just enrolled at a community college when he decided he needed a haircut.
course
▪ The following is a list of the best known courses available to individuals enrolling independently of company sponsorship.
▪ The study also notes a steady decline in the number of college students taking political science courses or enrolling in law schools.
member
▪ Please, once again, remind all your present members to renew membership and try to enrol as many new members as possible.
▪ Newly enrolled members of the Fantastic Flyer program also receive special discounts, coupons and other benefits during the year.
▪ It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers.
patient
▪ Among the 23 enrolled patients, five were lost to follow-up as early as 3 months.
▪ It enrolled 6090 patients and assigned them to enalapril or placebo.
▪ Therefore, we enrolled patients with spurting or oozing haemorrhage in this comparative trial.
program
▪ They keep off the jobless roles by taking early retirement, holding part-time jobs or enrolling in government-run training programs.
▪ He thought he might like landscaping and enrolled in a two-year program at a nearby college in horticulture.
school
▪ Today a record 62 percent of high school graduates are enrolled in colleges the following fall.
▪ The proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college jumped from 49 percent in 1980 to 62 percent in 1992.
▪ In 1994 the unemployment rate for recent high school graduates not enrolled in college was 36 percent.
student
▪ In 1986, 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track, but during the next academic year something unexpected happened.
▪ The number of students enrolled in ABA-approved law schools doubled in the twelve-year period from 1968 to 1979.
▪ By 1930, more than 500 students had enrolled in classes at some twenty-six rural centres.
▪ He saw it in the low number of minority students enrolled in honors classes.
▪ The first part-time students will enrol next April.
▪ When medical schools offered geriatrics as an elective, few students enrolled.
▪ Thereafter students shall enrol annually as required, normally at the commencement of the academic session. 2.
▪ For the spring term, about 58 students have enrolled.
study
▪ However, candidates from overseas are not normally allowed to enrol for part-time study.
▪ He did once enrol on a home study course but couldn't get motivated.
university
▪ After being enrolled at the university at the age of seventeen, Freud studied physiology, biology and anatomy.
▪ Don't tell me you've enrolled in the Open University!
▪ I enrolled at Oxford University and embarked on a career in advertising in 1975.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anybody who has not yet been enrolled on the English course should contact the tutor.
▪ Bill enrolled in a four-year teacher-training course in Albany.
▪ Classes began soon after we enrolled.
▪ His parents enrolled him in a military academy when he was only 8.
▪ I'd like to enrol on the German course, please.
▪ In 1966 he enrolled at the University of London to study history.
▪ Most students who enroll in geology courses do not intend to become geologists.
▪ That year Sam enroled for law studies in Cape Town.
▪ The course is very popular, so it's best to enrol as soon as possible.
▪ Two hundred and eighty women enrolled in the Argus club this year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In 1996 he was enrolled in a community college in Arizona.
▪ Only twenty-seven new members had been enrolled since the Leeds Congress, and the total membership still stood at less than one hundred.
▪ She enrolled at a Colorado community college and discovered how inadequate her education had been when she tested at the remedial level.
▪ The first is that students are adults, and enrol and attend their courses voluntarily.
▪ Those Victorian forces had apparently enrolled too many inadequate individuals, susceptible to the kaleidoscopic temptations of street life.
▪ Today a record 62 percent of high school graduates are enrolled in colleges the following fall.
▪ Whereupon he would be enrolled forthwith in the Tenth Company, of tyro Marines.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
enrol

Enroll \En*roll"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enrolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enrolling.] [Pref. en- + roll: cf. F. enr[^o]ler; pref. en- (L. in) + r[^o]le roll or register. See Roll, n.]

  1. To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist.

    An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling.
    --Milton.

    All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
    --Prescott.

  2. To envelop; to inwrap; to involve. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enrol

alternative spelling of enroll. Related: Enroled; enroling.

Wiktionary
enrol

vb. (context British NZ Australia Irish English) (standard spelling of enroll English)

WordNet
enrol
  1. v. register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe, enter, recruit]

  2. [also: enrolling, enrolled]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "enrol".

She had passed her baccalaureate, boarded a train, and enrolled at the Sorbonne.

According to Baggy, Sam Ruffin had been the first black student to enroll in the white schools in Clanton.

Though he who is baptized is made a member of the Church, nevertheless he is not yet enrolled as a Christian soldier.

Pokey were at once enrolled in the Cosey Corner Light Infantry a truly superb company, composed entirely of officers, all wearing cocked hats, carrying flags, waving swords, or beating drums.

Alabama statute which required that owners of vessels using the public waters of the enacting State be enrolled, pay fees, file statements as to ownership, etc.

If Marcus Perperna agrees to enroll me in the Senate, and the Senate agrees to procure the necessary legislation, I will declare myself a candidate for the consulship.

They were usefully employed as shepherds and husbandmen, but were denied the exercise of arms, except when it was found expedient to enroll them in the military service.

It was the admission of a doubt that he might expect to enroll them collectively.

Metellus Pius, who had never been in favor of granting the full Roman citizenship to the Italians, and had secretly applauded Philippus as censor because Philippus and his fellow censor, Perperna, had avoided enrolling the Italians as Roman citizens.

But money, as well as men, was wanting, and a heavy contribution was imposed to defray the expense of enrolling a number of workmen out of employment and idlers, of various kinds.

One of their conclusions, as I understand, is that, as the law stands, and attempting to follow it, the enrolling officers could not have made the enrolments much more accurately than they did.

But if you came in here in a wheel chair and blind in both eyes and were silly enough to insist on enrolling, they would find something silly enough to match.

He quit high school at the age of fifteen and enrolled at Kansas State University, breezing through the aeronautical engineering program in two years, after which he went to work for Cessna Aircraft Company as the youngest engineer on staff, or on the staff of any other airplane company so far as anyone knew.

With his brother Pedro, who shared his honours as Duke of Coimbra and Lord of the lands henceforward known as the Infantado or Principality, Henry thus begins the line of Dukes in Portugal, and among the other details of the war, his name is specially joined with that of an English fleet which he had enrolled as a contingent of his armada while recruiting for ships and men in the spring of 1415.

Trudeau enrolls in the detoxification program in Oka, Quebec, on Sunday, March 17, 1985.