recruit (verb)

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• recruit — ► VERB 1) enlist (someone) in the armed forces. 2) enrol (someone) as a member or worker in an organization. 3) informal persuade to do or help with something. ► NOUN ▪ a newly recruited person. DERIVATIVES recruiter noun recrui …   English terms dictionary

• Recruit — (from the French recrue , from the verb recroître to grow again , i.e. replenish the ranks) can refer to:* a recently enlisted member of a military or paramilitary corps, still in training, as in : ** Army recruit ** Seaman Recruit * Recruit… …   Wikipedia

• recruit — I verb add, augment, call up, collect, conscribere, conscript, draft, employ, enlarge, enlist, enroll, find manpower, gain, gather, increase, induct, muster, obtain, provide, raise, raise troops, reinvigorate, replenish, select, sign up,… …   Law dictionary

• recruit — verb enlist (someone) in the armed forces. ↘enrol (someone) as a member or worker in an organization. ↘informal persuade to do or help with something. noun a newly recruited person. Derivatives recruitable adjective recruiter noun Origin C17:… …   English new terms dictionary

• recruit — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ latest, new, raw, recent ▪ raw recruits marching up and down with the drill instructor ▪ potential, prospective …   Collocations dictionary

• recruit — ▪ I. recruit re‧cruit 1 [rɪˈkruːt] verb [intransitive, transitive] HUMAN RESOURCES to find new people to work for an organization, do a job etc: • So far, they have recruited 10 new sales representatives. • He was recruited by the new chairman to …   Financial and business terms

• recruit — [[t]rɪkru͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦♦ recruits, recruiting, recruited 1) VERB If you recruit people for an organization, you select them and persuade them to join it or work for it. [V n] The police are trying to recruit more black and Asian officers... [V n… …   English dictionary

• recruit — I UK [rɪˈkruːt] / US [rɪˈkrut] verb Word forms recruit : present tense I/you/we/they recruit he/she/it recruits present participle recruiting past tense recruited past participle recruited ** 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to get someone to work …   English dictionary

• recruit — I. Date: 1643 transitive verb 1. a. (1) to fill up the number of (as an army) with new members ; reinforce (2) to enlist as a member of an armed service b. to increase or maintain the number of < America recruited her population from Europe > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• recruit — [17] Etymologically, a recruit is something that ‘grows again’. The word’s ultimate ancestor is Latin recrēscere ‘regrow’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘again’ and crēscere ‘grow’ (source of English crescent, increase, etc). This… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• recruit — 1 verb 1 (I, T) to find new people to work in a company, join an organization, do a job etc: We re having difficulty recruiting enough properly qualified staff. 2 a) (I, T) to get people to join the army or navy: Most of the men in the village… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English