Other forms: enrollments
Enrollment is officially signing up to join a school or course. Open enrollment, enrollment figures, complete your enrollment.
The word carries administrative weight: enrollment numbers decide funding, staffing and whether a course runs at all. The double l is American; British writing spells it enrolment with one, which is one of the few cases where British English has fewer letters. Note enrol, enroll; and that a roll here is a list of names.
1nounenrollmentOfficially signing up to join a school or course.
“Enrollment for the autumn classes opens on the first of August.”
enrollment is a registration.
Also accepted in games: enrolment, registration
Middle French enrollement comes from enroller, to put on a roll or list. A roll was a rolled parchment of names.
Middle French
enrollement
English, today
enrollment
From Middle French enrollement. From Middle French enrollement. See enroll + ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA