re-enlist
Verb
Meaning
re-enlist (third-person singular simple present re-enlists, present participle re-enlisting, simple past and past participle re-enlisted)
Alternative form of reenlist
Synonyms
Examples
Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.
A majority of those in uniform would not re-enlist following their one-year commitment, so on April 16, 1862 the Confederate Congress enacted the first mass conscription on the North American continent.
Reservist Jeremy Johnson became the first person discharged under DADT to re-enlist.
In April 1863 he persuaded his parents to allow him to re-enlist, whereupon he joined Company M of the 16th New York Cavalry and earned promotion to the rank of corporal.