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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enrolment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
open
▪ Judgements about the comparative quality of schools are a consequence of open enrolment and need good management.
▪ The significance of these comparatively simple provisions on open enrolment should not be overlooked.
▪ This is the reform of admissions policies and the introduction of open enrolment.
▪ Other measures include teacher appraisal, the National Curriculum, open enrolment, standardised assessment tasks.
▪ Some aspects of open enrolment go back to the 1980 Education Act.
■ NOUN
school
▪ The extension was completed at a cost of more than £3m to cope with school enrolment of 540 pupils.
▪ Now the bank expresses surprise that school enrolment is down from 80 % to 66 %.
▪ These improved rates have been brought about by increasing school enrolment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Enrolment forms are preprinted for most students before enrolment each autumn.
▪ Accepted students will be informed in admission letters of the amount required, which is payable on enrolment.
▪ By this time, all provinces except Zambezia had at least 40 percent female enrolment.
▪ Estimates of total enrolment vary, but it seems unlikely that there were less than 100,000 Sunday school pupils by 1800.
▪ I have tried to give an indication of the very varied actual pattern of enrolment in schools.
▪ It is the student's responsibility to arrange for payment in full on or before enrolment.
▪ Students are actively involved prior to enrolment.
▪ The significance of these comparatively simple provisions on open enrolment should not be overlooked.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
enrolment

Enrollment \En*roll"ment\, n. [Cf. F. enr[^o]lement.] [Written also enrolment.]

  1. The act of enrolling; registration.
    --Holland.

  2. A writing in which anything is enrolled; a register; a record.
    --Sir J. Davies.

Wiktionary
enrolment

alt. 1 The act of enrolling or the state of being enrolled 2 The people enrolled, considered as a group 3 The number of people enrolled 4 The record of such enrolling; registration n. 1 The act of enrolling or the state of being enrolled 2 The people enrolled, considered as a group 3 The number of people enrolled 4 The record of such enrolling; registration

WordNet
enrolment

n. the act of enrolling [syn: registration, enrollment]

Usage examples of "enrolment".

Ireland, Charles Doyne Sillery has some claim to enrolment among the minstrels of Caledonia.

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.

It is officially announced by the State Department that citizens of the United States holding commissions and recognized as Consuls of foreign powers, are not by law exempt from military service if drafted: Therefore the mere enrolment of a citizen holding a foreign consulate will not be held to vacate his commission, but if he shall be drafted his exequatur will be revoked unless he shall have previously resigned in order that another Consul may be received.

Whereas the new enrolment heretofore ordered is so far completed as that the aforementioned act of Congress may now be put in operation for recruiting and keeping up the strength of the armies in the field, for garrisons, and such military operations as may be required for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion and restoring the authority of the United States Government in the insurgent States: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my last call for five hundred thousand volunteers for the military service: Provided, nevertheless, That this call shall be reduced by all credits which may be established under section eight of the aforesaid act on account of persons who have entered the naval service during the present rebellion and by credits for men furnished to the military service in excess of calls heretofore made.

This act is called enrolment, a rather common behaviour for arthropods, and it seems to me that this is what Tom has been doing these past weeks.

One interesting development of this phase of the war was the enrolment of a burgher police among the Boers who had surrendered.

At first the enrolments were the cause of the quarrel, but when actually on service the men obeyed their generals.

One of the regulations which had not existed in her time was registration qualification: enrolment for certain classes was restricted to those who qualified through the examinations.

His combat record should have earned him enrolment into the select company of Minutemen which, like the Foragers, was the ultimate achievement - short of becoming a member of the First Family - to which ordinary Trackers could aspire.