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recruiting, vbl. n.|rɪˈkruːtɪŋ|
[f. recruit v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. recruit.
1646Sir R. Murray in Hamilton Papers (Camden) 136 A motion..concerning the recruiting of the Scots' Regiments in France. 1670Ld. North Narr. Long Parl. 60 Before this recruiting of the House of Commons (as it was then called). 1748Anson's Voy. ii. vii. 211 A business which..would occasion some delay.. was the recruiting of our water. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1818) II. xvii. 94 When all the neuters are acquainted with the road to the new city, the recruiting ceases. 1840J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1842) V. xix. 315 Sleep is equally the comfort and recruiting of rich and poor. 1879J. Burroughs Locusts & W. Honey (1884) 118 The recruiting of a thunder-storm is often very marked.
b. attrib., as recruiting agent, recruiting bill, recruiting campaign, recruiting corps, recruiting district, recruiting drive, recruiting-market, recruiting office, recruiting officer, recruiting party, recruiting poster, recruiting-schooner, recruiting sergeant, recruiting sergeantry, recruiting service, recruiting station.
In some cases coinciding with the ppl. adj.
1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. 423 Confederates who had acted under them as *recruiting agents for Lord Exeter.
1708Addison Let. 24 Jan. (1941) 89 The next day,..they cramped the former *Recruiting Bill by a new clause.
1976Sunday Mail (Glasgow) 28 Nov., There have been *recruiting campaigns for both police and teachers since regionalisation.
1802James Milit. Dict. s.v. Recruits, The *recruiting corps, professedly so called, and having place in the army list.
Ibid., *Recruiting Districts.
1956Railway Mag. May 345/1 A big *recruiting drive for staff..has been launched by British Railways. a1971R. Whyatt in J. Burnett Useful Toil (1974) i. 126 A recruiting drive was on, and her brothers might have to go.
1901Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 476/1 The *recruiting-market is in direct competition with all other avenues of employment.
1848J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. viii. 115 He looked through the dirty pane of the *recruiting-office window. 1919G. B. Shaw Augustus does his Bit 244 This is the Town Hall Recruiting Office. Give me Colonel Bogey, sharp.
1706Farquhar (title) The *Recruiting Officer; a Comedy. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4648/3 This Day arrived the Queen Packet-Boat,..with several Recruiting Officers. 1859Max Müller Chips (1880) III. iv. 82 A place on the frontier, where he had to act as recruiting officer.
1790New Newgate Cal. V. 149 While he was in the army, and on a *recruiting party in Yorkshire. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 144 The recruiting parties, instead of beating their drums for volunteers at fairs and markets [etc.].
1909Regulations for Recruiting for Regular Army & Special Reserve (War Office) i. 8 Illustrated *recruiting posters may, with the concurrence of the local postmasters, be exhibited outside post offices. 1940‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 184 After the bombs and the food-queues and the recruiting-posters, a human voice! 1971P. D. James Shroud for Nightingale i. 23 She was attractive enough for a recruiting poster.
1923‘R. Daly’ Enchanted Isl. i. 16 But you'd have had a more comfortable trip if you'd let him send his *recruiting-schooner for you.
1770Bickerstaff (title) The *Recruiting Serjeant; a musical Entertainment. 1814Scott Wav. lxi, Introducing Waverley to a recruiting-sergeant of his own regiment. 1849Whig Almanac & U.S. Reg. for 1850 26/2, 23 cents per day, hardships in war, and no hope at all, require the aid of a recruiting sergeant. 1948Contact Books xi. 62/1 When first, as a boy, I got to know boxers, unemployment and hardship were the greatest recruiting sergeants for the ring.
1832Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) II. 50 Let us have no *recruiting-serjeantry.
1772Ann. Reg. i. 71*/2 It would be utterly destructive of the *recruiting service for the army. 1822Regul. & Orders Army 74 Officers on the Recruiting Service.
1845J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. Rocky Mts. 160 The bottoms of this river, (the Bear), and of some of the creeks..form a natural resting and *recruiting station for travellers. 1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other island p. xxxv, Every school is a recruiting station; every church is a barrack.
So reˈcruiting ppl. a., that recruits.
1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 766 Man..had his better half..T'amend his natural defects And perfect his recruiting sex. |