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ENROLL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: enrolled    , enrolling   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Register formally as a participant or member

Example:

The party recruited many new members

Synonyms:

enrol; enroll; enter; inscribe; recruit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "enroll" is one way to...):

register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enroll"):

draft; enlist; muster in (engage somebody to enter the army)

unionise; unionize (recruit for a union or organize into a union)

register (enroll to vote)

matriculate (enroll as a student)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

enrollee (a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study)

enrollment (the act of enrolling)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Investigators at Stanford University enrolled 120 people aged 7 to 55 with diagnosed peanut allergy in the Peanut Oral Immunotherapy Study: Safety Efficacy and Discovery, or POISED.

(Few people with peanut allergy tolerate peanut after stopping oral immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine enrolled 48 participants aged 4 to 15 years with confirmed allergy to multiple foods, including milk, egg, wheat, soy, sesame seeds, peanut or tree nuts.

(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)

An organization that integrates financing and management of healthcare with the delivery of healthcare services to an enrolled population.

(Managed Healthcare Plan, NCI Thesaurus)

Study subjects are only exposed to the treatment that is assigned to the particular study arm they are enrolled in.

(Parallel Study, NCI Thesaurus)

The study enrolled 171 couples where the male partner had at least one abnormal reading on an analysis evaluating sperm concentration, mobility, shape and DNA quality; the female partners had normal fertility test results.

(Antioxidant supplements do not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)

In the current trial, researchers enrolled 2,370 couples planning infertility treatments in four U.S. cities and their surrounding areas.

(Zinc, folic acid supplement does not improve male fertility, National Institutes of Health)

Actual number of subjects enrolled; may include subjects who were not randomized.

(Actual Subject Number, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A professional society of physicians who limit their practice to radiation oncology, physicians currently enrolled in a fellowship program and radiation oncology physicists in all types of practices.

(American College of Radiation Oncology, NCI Thesaurus)

A managed care organization that provides health services to enrolled individuals.

(Health Maintenance Organization, NCI Thesaurus)

The act of registration, entering in a list, catalog, group, study; also, the number of subjects enrolled.

(Enrollment, NCI Thesaurus)