Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or fact of reënlisting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A renewed enlistment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
reenlisted - noun countable A second or subsequent
enlistment
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a renewed enlistment
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Examples
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Know your facts man, reenlistment is through the use.
Think Progress » Bolton: My Support ‘Would Probably Be The Kiss of Death’ For Next U.N. Head 2006
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If there was a draft and most of the military was composed of recruits who had no intention of making it a career, you can be certain reenlistment would be racing to the bottom, just like recruitment.
08/06/2005 2005
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Some on the far right argue that since reenlistment is up that the soldiers must know something we don't and that things are actually going much better than it appears in Iraq.
08/06/2005 2005
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But reenlistment is holding steady and even exceeding expectations.
08/06/2005 2005
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War, although in the midst of the war, in 1967, black first-term reenlistment rates continued to exceed white rates 2 to 1.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor
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The Army has made up some poster to assist with retention, and reenlistment.
JAROB WALSH 2010
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During the reenlistment ceremony, I was given a pair of Korean jump wings with a hat and my rank on it from a KATUSA.
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Like the Arabic linguists described above, they had a rather low reenlistment rate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Arabic Language Expertise in the Military 2010
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Right up there with demanding reenlistment bonuses back from soldiers wounded and discharged before their tour was up.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel 2010
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Robert Mitchell never left the states, was only in for three years, was refused reenlistment, was arrested
ROBERT MITCHELL 2010
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