enlisted
Volunteered for service
Enlisted describes military personnel who are not officers—the ranks that form the bulk of armed forces.
Someone enlisted holds a position entered through enlistment rather than commission: enlisted men, enlisted ranks.
The past tense of enlist, it also means joined or recruited: She enlisted in the Navy, He enlisted his friends to help move.
Armed forces member
- recruitNew member sought
- privateRestricted to certain parties
- corporalOf the flesh
- sergeantMid-level military rank
rank · uniform · barracks · infantry · platoon · battalion · regiment · brigade
Linked or united
- registeredFormally recorded or enrolled
- committedFirmly pledged or bound
- pledgedFormally promised something
- volunteeredGave services unpaid
recruited · enrolled · mobilized · rallied · mustered · engaged · participated · contributed
soldier
Armed forces member
sergeant · rank · uniform · barracks · infantry · platoon · battalion · regiment · brigade · division
joined
Linked or united
- registeredFormally recorded or enrolled
- committedFirmly pledged or bound
- pledgedFormally promised something
volunteered · recruited · enrolled · mobilized · rallied · mustered · engaged · participated · contributed · supported
recruited
Brought into service
persuaded · secured · obtained · summoned · marshaled · assembled · organized · convinced · solicited
- Air Force Enlistedairmen, NCO, NCOs, noncommissioned officer, non-commissioned officers
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- Air Forcesair force, US Air Force, Luftwaffe, RAF, squadrons
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- military termsarmy, navy, air force, marines, soldier
- Navyadmiral, battleship, destroyer, aircraft carrier, cruiser
enlistedofficer
Authority figure in uniform
commissioned · commissioned officer · commanding officer · officer class · officer corps
enlisteddischarged
Officially let go
separated · dismissed · released · retired · mustered out
- enlisted rankNon-commissioned military grade
- enlisted menMilitary members below officers
- military enlistmentJoining armed forces voluntarily
- enlisted personnelNon-commissioned military members
- enlisted manNon-officer military personnel
- army enlistmentJoining armed forces voluntarily
enlist, enlistment, enlisting, enlists, enlistee, reenlisted, reenlists, reenlisting, reenlistment