Definition of recruit in English:

recruit

verb rɪˈkruːtrəˈkrut

[with object]

1Enlist (someone) in the armed forces.
we recruit our toughest soldiers from the desert tribes
no object the regiment was still actively recruiting
Example sentencesExamples
- Preparing newly recruited soldiers for immediate combat after graduation was not the main mission of basic training and advanced individual training a few years ago.
- Despite some less than optimistic predictions, we have recruited the right soldiers and kept the best and brightest troops in the Army so we can match the right faces to the correct places.
- Their soldiers are recruited from the U.S. Army, mainly from the Special Forces Green Berets and Rangers.
- Putting it bluntly, the Army needs to recruit those for infantry and other front line combat units who are prepared to advance upon and kill others, albeit in a disciplined and trained manner.
- The U.S. military, as always, is actively recruiting new members.
- The Navy is actively recruiting young men and women into its ranks at the moment and offers a wide and varied career to anyone interested in taking up a career at sea.
- Such a policy would make it easier to recruit soldiers and officers because their pay would be more competitive with the civilian market.
- They are also actively recruiting people for officer training with 70 cadets brought on board last October and a further 70 are due to be taken on in the next few weeks.
- Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted.
- The regular army and the National Guard continued to recruit volunteers, and the draft was held to remedy any deficiencies.
- Naismith was recruited into the army at the start of World War I, but suffered gassing in the trenches which ruined his health.
- Murray and Scales also argue that the United States should recruit different leaders for the specialized units needed for the asymmetrical battlefield.
- The Army has learned through painful experience and proudly proclaims that it recruits soldiers, but retains families.
- To that end, and upon the approval of the Secretary of Defense, the Army will recruit, train and bring into the force an additional 4,800 soldiers this year.
- Many other Western countries have also accumulated considerable experience in recruiting women for service in the modern armed forces.
- They will, therefore, continue to recruit officers and soldiers and offer young men the opportunity to serve in one of the best infantry battalions.
- Qualified combatants could be recruited for the national army and the police force.
- From 1994, it started to recruit children systematically and even created children's regiments.
- The Chief of Defence Staff said to achieve this, the military would have to recruit new soldiers between two and three times annually and build additional bases.
- In 1941, she proceeded to England where the British Special Operations Executive recruited her.
Synonyms
enlist, sign up, enrol, engage, take on, round up
call up, conscript
North American draft, muster in, induct
historical press, press-gang, shanghai
archaic levy, impress, list, conscribe, crimp, attest
1. 1.1 Form (an army or other force) by enlisting new people.
  the weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army
  Example sentencesExamples
  To counter the offensive the British authorities began to recruit a special force for deployment in Ireland.
  Now we are recruiting an army for direct action.
  The Bengal army was recruited not from Bengal itself but from northern India, especially from Awadh.
  The first conscript armies were recruited in France to fight the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  A new force was recruited, trained and dispatched by mid-August.
  As early as 1889, the Chamber of Mines recruited a labor force of black workers.
  Instead, he recruited a force of his own, consisting of out-of-uniform black officers from cities up and down the East Coast.
  The new paramilitary forces will be recruited from two sources: tribes and former army members.
  A company is recruiting an army of retired plumbers in a new approach to tackling the skills shortage.
  He started recruiting his army and sent an estimated 4,000 men to Afghanistan for training.
  Is he planning on recruiting an army or something?
  The state tolerated this situation, for it enabled it to recruit the army and raise taxes directly from the peasantry, without intermediaries.
  For now he's working behind the scenes, trying to build up a $250,000 war chest and recruit an army of campaigners.
  The industrial labour force was recruited from a number of sources.
  He is planning to forge even closer links with the public to help achieve this, recruiting an army of volunteers to supplement the work already being done by officers, special constables and community support officers.
  When the pope added debt relief for the families of those who fought, he had no trouble recruiting an army.
  Meanwhile airport bosses have recruited an army of private security workers to prevent the airport from grinding to a halt.
  And conscription was only used to recruit the militia, a reserve army never now mobilized except in wartime.
  And the Government has frittered away a huge fortune by recruiting a vast army of non-productive civil servants.
  Synonyms
  muster, form, raise, gather/bring together, assemble, mobilize, marshal, round up, call to arms
2. 1.2 Enrol (someone) as a member or worker in an organization or as a supporter of a cause.
  there are plans to recruit more staff later this year
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the easiest way to get people to share your values is to hire people who already do, more organisations now recruit people with the right attitude, then train them in the skills they need.
  Actually, I'm trying to recruit a new team member at the moment (we're in online customer service).
  Now 10 extra permanent staff are being recruited to replace the agency workers.
  But the workers are beginning to recruit new union members from this shift.
  He eventually went to Cambridge University, and here Moscow recruited him as a member of the KGB.
  Turnover is the exception, and openings are promptly filled when they occur, often by candidates recruited by current staff members.
  He was doing poorly in school, and gang members were trying to recruit him.
  I do know that the organization is trying to recruit new members in this state, and that over two thousand of the current members are here.
  With my health clubs, the most effective marketing has always been to reward members for recruiting their friends, family and work colleagues.
  Waterford Chamber of Commerce are fully aware of the difficulties that its members are experiencing in recruiting suitable employees.
  In the same year, she was recruited as a member of the Shanghai Photographic Association.
  A national voluntary organisation is recruiting new members for their Laois branch.
  There are also plans to recruit an extra member of staff to help with the audio work.
  I have recruited excellent staff members at restaurants, athletic clubs, and even traveling on an airplane!
  They never mention whether our young people are recruited as white-collar workers or just underpaid, overworked laborers over there.
  She has served on the Membership Committee and has been involved in recruiting students and new members.
  It will be very difficult in this short space of time for parties and candidates to recruit staff, organise and launch their campaigns and obtain the necessary funding.
  She turned around to see Sandy, the crew member who'd recruited her.
  It can cost about £4,000 to recruit a new staff member, including advertising costs, training and the costs to the business of an unfilled vacancy.
  There are also plans to recruit junior doctors, so more staff will be on hand to treat patients.
  Synonyms
  hire, employ, take on, take into one's employ
  enrol, sign up, get, obtain, acquire
3. 1.3informal with object and infinitive Persuade to do or help with something.
  she recruited her children to help run the racket
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some organizations openly recruit students to inform on their teachers.
  Security officials also have warned of plots by retired military officers to recruit soldiers on active duty to launch a coup d'état.
  To combat this, they are hoping to recruit dentists to do only NHS work.
  Schoolchildren have been recruited to persuade rail passengers that there is nothing funny about ‘leaves on the line’.
  They have been recruited to persuade citizens to report local villains.
  It has recruited celebrities and members of the public from across the Spanish-speaking world to read a section of the book each day.
2dated Replenish or reinvigorate (numbers, strength, etc.)
travelling was said to recruit the constitution
Example sentencesExamples
- If you're strong in the pull-up, add a weighted belt to recruit both strength and muscle size.
- Exercising moderately for 30 to 45 minutes seems to be just right in terms of recruiting the maximum number of lymphocytes.
- These are all multijoint movements that recruit a maximum number of muscle fibers, leading to an increase in anabolic-hormone production.

noun rɪˈkruːtrəˈkrut

1A person newly enlisted in the armed forces and not yet fully trained.
Example sentencesExamples
- Walsh had enlisted as a recruit with the Marines during 1933.
- In fact, in 2002 it was reported that 60 percent of all female recruits would serve in military positions previously excluded to them.
- The advanced soldier course will be in place for the first recruits marching into the Army Recruit Training Centre in February 2005.
- To put it baldly, we now have overpaid recruits and underpaid sergeants.
- Students with no other income are a major source of recruits for the part-time Army.
- Only by reducing the army and applying higher enlistment standards to all recruits could racial violence be reduced, essential in an army that is now one-third black.
- This program allows qualified civilian recruits to enlist specifically for Special Forces training.
- In addition, at least since the inception of the all-volunteer Army, the United States has never filled the Army exclusively with male recruits.
- To help meet its 2005 recruiting objectives, the Army's recruiting command has lowered some standards for recruits.
- The abuse of new recruits to our Army, while criminal, also greatly impedes successful recruitment efforts.
- The recruits they train are all volunteers who, unlike draftees dragged kicking and screaming into camp, willingly seek military service.
- This archive consists of hundreds of images of naked men, presumably fresh conscripts and army recruits, taken for an unknown kind of ethnographic exercise.
- Medical officers examined new recruits for physical fitness to regular army standards.
- Once minimally trained, most new recruits are quickly set out on the battlefield.
- The new recruits adapted well to military life and, although a few deserted or turned on their officers, proved loyal to the United States.
- Of the 20 who began the course earlier this year two have already enlisted and will begin recruit training at HMAS Cerberus in January.
- The new troops will train 1,000 raw recruits for the Sierra Leone army at a special camp.
- Around half of the new army's recruits have deserted or failed to make the grade, U.S. trainers say, leaving only about 2,500 soldiers.
- Yet in 1993, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps proposed that recruits be limited to single persons only, he was publicly rebuked.
- The intention is to influence many of those new recruits into becoming Army Reserve officers.
Synonyms
conscript, new soldier
North American draftee, inductee
British informal sprog
North American informal plebe, buck private, yardbird
1. 1.1 A new member of an organization or supporter of a cause.
  Example sentencesExamples
  David had been serving the club the previous day in his capacity as trainer of new recruits.
  Andersen Consulting is currently paying its student recruits £10,000 as a ‘golden hello’.
  The 500 members left in the district are pinning their hopes on a recruitment drive on Saturday, February 1, when each member is asked to bring a new recruit along.
  On the other hand, every pastor affirmed that if church members or new recruits are known to have AIDS they will be supported and treated well within the church.
  In both cases, 55 per cent of respondents said these were pushing their organisation to attract recruits from minority groups.
  Several jobs with salaries of up to £45,000, are now being advertised, as department chiefs begin to look outside the organisation to find recruits prepared to work in the town.
  Think again if onerous charges are imposed should the staff member want to transfer to another scheme, or if recruits are not allowed to join the scheme within three months of joining the company.
  All the student organizations are clamoring to find new recruits from among the freshmen, and anybody else who cares to come.
  Their Search and Rescue Team has about 50 members and this week launched an appeal for new recruits.
  Researchers studied the corporate structure of each organisation for its suitability in developing creativity, and interviewed recruits about their initial experiences.
  Most of the members have returned to their homeland and the local recruits did not stay on very long.
  They have had no trouble recently filling eight apprenticeships with local recruits, including some who are Aboriginal.
  The organization is finding it difficult to get new recruits.
  She plans to increase the organisation's recruits from 2,000 to just over 3,000 within the next three years.
  And thanks to an appeal in the Evening Advertiser for more members earlier this month, new recruits have been signing up to join the project in Parks and Walcot.
  The answer lies in the fact that, while the Advisory Council may be a recent creation, its members are not new recruits.
  The recruits undertake an initial two-week intensive course in Barrow, before starting their two-year probationary period with the crew.
  The staff wasn't prepared to mentor them; staff members mostly bit their tongues when the new recruits messed up.
  Fewer than a third of Labour party new recruits are now members of trade unions, the same proportion as in the population as a whole.
  We had no reports of recent antibiotic use and no reports of lice among the family members of recruits during the trial.
  Synonyms
  new member, new entrant, newcomer, new boy/girl, initiate
  trainee, apprentice
  beginner, novice, learner, tyro, neophyte, proselyte
  North American tenderfoot, hire
  informal rookie, new kid, newbie, cub
  North American informal greenhorn

Derivatives

recruitable

adjective

We went through a number of different designs and got input from focus groups of recruitable people, and this was the design that best conveyed the message we were trying to get out.
Example sentencesExamples
- Next day he's washed up on a beach, still alive, conveniently suffering from amnesia, and is taken to a small town, called Lawson, where just about every youth of recruitable age was killed in the war.
- It's true that the better you train your people, the more recruitable they are.

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the senses 'fresh body of troops' and 'supplement the numbers in a group'): from obsolete French dialect recrute, based on Latin recrescere 'grow again', from re- 'again' + crescere 'grow'.

Rhymes

acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute

Definition of recruit in US English:

recruit

verbrəˈkrutrəˈkro͞ot

[with object]

1Enlist (someone) in the armed forces.
they recruit their toughest soldiers from the desert tribes
no object the regiment was still actively recruiting
Example sentencesExamples
- The Navy is actively recruiting young men and women into its ranks at the moment and offers a wide and varied career to anyone interested in taking up a career at sea.
- To that end, and upon the approval of the Secretary of Defense, the Army will recruit, train and bring into the force an additional 4,800 soldiers this year.
- The Chief of Defence Staff said to achieve this, the military would have to recruit new soldiers between two and three times annually and build additional bases.
- Despite some less than optimistic predictions, we have recruited the right soldiers and kept the best and brightest troops in the Army so we can match the right faces to the correct places.
- Their soldiers are recruited from the U.S. Army, mainly from the Special Forces Green Berets and Rangers.
- In 1941, she proceeded to England where the British Special Operations Executive recruited her.
- Naismith was recruited into the army at the start of World War I, but suffered gassing in the trenches which ruined his health.
- They will, therefore, continue to recruit officers and soldiers and offer young men the opportunity to serve in one of the best infantry battalions.
- Such a policy would make it easier to recruit soldiers and officers because their pay would be more competitive with the civilian market.
- Many other Western countries have also accumulated considerable experience in recruiting women for service in the modern armed forces.
- The regular army and the National Guard continued to recruit volunteers, and the draft was held to remedy any deficiencies.
- From 1994, it started to recruit children systematically and even created children's regiments.
- Putting it bluntly, the Army needs to recruit those for infantry and other front line combat units who are prepared to advance upon and kill others, albeit in a disciplined and trained manner.
- Preparing newly recruited soldiers for immediate combat after graduation was not the main mission of basic training and advanced individual training a few years ago.
- Qualified combatants could be recruited for the national army and the police force.
- Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted.
- They are also actively recruiting people for officer training with 70 cadets brought on board last October and a further 70 are due to be taken on in the next few weeks.
- Murray and Scales also argue that the United States should recruit different leaders for the specialized units needed for the asymmetrical battlefield.
- The U.S. military, as always, is actively recruiting new members.
- The Army has learned through painful experience and proudly proclaims that it recruits soldiers, but retains families.
Synonyms
enlist, sign up, enrol, engage, take on, round up
1. 1.1 Form (an army or other force) by enlisting new people.
  a basis for recruiting an army
  Example sentencesExamples
  The new paramilitary forces will be recruited from two sources: tribes and former army members.
  And the Government has frittered away a huge fortune by recruiting a vast army of non-productive civil servants.
  Meanwhile airport bosses have recruited an army of private security workers to prevent the airport from grinding to a halt.
  A new force was recruited, trained and dispatched by mid-August.
  And conscription was only used to recruit the militia, a reserve army never now mobilized except in wartime.
  The industrial labour force was recruited from a number of sources.
  Now we are recruiting an army for direct action.
  When the pope added debt relief for the families of those who fought, he had no trouble recruiting an army.
  For now he's working behind the scenes, trying to build up a $250,000 war chest and recruit an army of campaigners.
  The Bengal army was recruited not from Bengal itself but from northern India, especially from Awadh.
  The first conscript armies were recruited in France to fight the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  Is he planning on recruiting an army or something?
  He started recruiting his army and sent an estimated 4,000 men to Afghanistan for training.
  Instead, he recruited a force of his own, consisting of out-of-uniform black officers from cities up and down the East Coast.
  The state tolerated this situation, for it enabled it to recruit the army and raise taxes directly from the peasantry, without intermediaries.
  He is planning to forge even closer links with the public to help achieve this, recruiting an army of volunteers to supplement the work already being done by officers, special constables and community support officers.
  A company is recruiting an army of retired plumbers in a new approach to tackling the skills shortage.
  To counter the offensive the British authorities began to recruit a special force for deployment in Ireland.
  As early as 1889, the Chamber of Mines recruited a labor force of black workers.
  Synonyms
  muster, form, raise, bring together, gather together, assemble, mobilize, marshal, round up, call to arms
2. 1.2 Enroll (someone) as a member or worker in an organization or as a supporter of a cause.
  there are plans to recruit more staff later this year
  Example sentencesExamples
  They never mention whether our young people are recruited as white-collar workers or just underpaid, overworked laborers over there.
  Turnover is the exception, and openings are promptly filled when they occur, often by candidates recruited by current staff members.
  Now 10 extra permanent staff are being recruited to replace the agency workers.
  In the same year, she was recruited as a member of the Shanghai Photographic Association.
  She has served on the Membership Committee and has been involved in recruiting students and new members.
  I have recruited excellent staff members at restaurants, athletic clubs, and even traveling on an airplane!
  Waterford Chamber of Commerce are fully aware of the difficulties that its members are experiencing in recruiting suitable employees.
  It will be very difficult in this short space of time for parties and candidates to recruit staff, organise and launch their campaigns and obtain the necessary funding.
  Actually, I'm trying to recruit a new team member at the moment (we're in online customer service).
  I do know that the organization is trying to recruit new members in this state, and that over two thousand of the current members are here.
  A national voluntary organisation is recruiting new members for their Laois branch.
  With my health clubs, the most effective marketing has always been to reward members for recruiting their friends, family and work colleagues.
  He was doing poorly in school, and gang members were trying to recruit him.
  As the easiest way to get people to share your values is to hire people who already do, more organisations now recruit people with the right attitude, then train them in the skills they need.
  It can cost about £4,000 to recruit a new staff member, including advertising costs, training and the costs to the business of an unfilled vacancy.
  There are also plans to recruit an extra member of staff to help with the audio work.
  But the workers are beginning to recruit new union members from this shift.
  There are also plans to recruit junior doctors, so more staff will be on hand to treat patients.
  He eventually went to Cambridge University, and here Moscow recruited him as a member of the KGB.
  She turned around to see Sandy, the crew member who'd recruited her.
  Synonyms
  hire, employ, take on, take into one's employ
3. 1.3informal with object and infinitive Persuade (someone) to do or assist in doing something.
  she recruited her children to help run the racket
  Example sentencesExamples
  Security officials also have warned of plots by retired military officers to recruit soldiers on active duty to launch a coup d'état.
  It has recruited celebrities and members of the public from across the Spanish-speaking world to read a section of the book each day.
  Some organizations openly recruit students to inform on their teachers.
  Schoolchildren have been recruited to persuade rail passengers that there is nothing funny about ‘leaves on the line’.
  To combat this, they are hoping to recruit dentists to do only NHS work.
  They have been recruited to persuade citizens to report local villains.

nounrəˈkrutrəˈkro͞ot

1A person newly enlisted in the armed forces and not yet fully trained.
3,000 army recruits at Ft. Benjamin
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet in 1993, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps proposed that recruits be limited to single persons only, he was publicly rebuked.
- The recruits they train are all volunteers who, unlike draftees dragged kicking and screaming into camp, willingly seek military service.
- Students with no other income are a major source of recruits for the part-time Army.
- To put it baldly, we now have overpaid recruits and underpaid sergeants.
- Walsh had enlisted as a recruit with the Marines during 1933.
- This archive consists of hundreds of images of naked men, presumably fresh conscripts and army recruits, taken for an unknown kind of ethnographic exercise.
- The advanced soldier course will be in place for the first recruits marching into the Army Recruit Training Centre in February 2005.
- To help meet its 2005 recruiting objectives, the Army's recruiting command has lowered some standards for recruits.
- In fact, in 2002 it was reported that 60 percent of all female recruits would serve in military positions previously excluded to them.
- This program allows qualified civilian recruits to enlist specifically for Special Forces training.
- The abuse of new recruits to our Army, while criminal, also greatly impedes successful recruitment efforts.
- In addition, at least since the inception of the all-volunteer Army, the United States has never filled the Army exclusively with male recruits.
- Once minimally trained, most new recruits are quickly set out on the battlefield.
- Medical officers examined new recruits for physical fitness to regular army standards.
- The new recruits adapted well to military life and, although a few deserted or turned on their officers, proved loyal to the United States.
- Around half of the new army's recruits have deserted or failed to make the grade, U.S. trainers say, leaving only about 2,500 soldiers.
- The new troops will train 1,000 raw recruits for the Sierra Leone army at a special camp.
- The intention is to influence many of those new recruits into becoming Army Reserve officers.
- Of the 20 who began the course earlier this year two have already enlisted and will begin recruit training at HMAS Cerberus in January.
- Only by reducing the army and applying higher enlistment standards to all recruits could racial violence be reduced, essential in an army that is now one-third black.
Synonyms
conscript, new soldier
1. 1.1 A new member of an organization or a new supporter of a cause.
  after agreeing on a salary, the new recruit failed to turn up on Monday morning
  Example sentencesExamples
  Think again if onerous charges are imposed should the staff member want to transfer to another scheme, or if recruits are not allowed to join the scheme within three months of joining the company.
  Their Search and Rescue Team has about 50 members and this week launched an appeal for new recruits.
  Fewer than a third of Labour party new recruits are now members of trade unions, the same proportion as in the population as a whole.
  David had been serving the club the previous day in his capacity as trainer of new recruits.
  On the other hand, every pastor affirmed that if church members or new recruits are known to have AIDS they will be supported and treated well within the church.
  The answer lies in the fact that, while the Advisory Council may be a recent creation, its members are not new recruits.
  We had no reports of recent antibiotic use and no reports of lice among the family members of recruits during the trial.
  They have had no trouble recently filling eight apprenticeships with local recruits, including some who are Aboriginal.
  The staff wasn't prepared to mentor them; staff members mostly bit their tongues when the new recruits messed up.
  In both cases, 55 per cent of respondents said these were pushing their organisation to attract recruits from minority groups.
  Most of the members have returned to their homeland and the local recruits did not stay on very long.
  Andersen Consulting is currently paying its student recruits £10,000 as a ‘golden hello’.
  And thanks to an appeal in the Evening Advertiser for more members earlier this month, new recruits have been signing up to join the project in Parks and Walcot.
  Several jobs with salaries of up to £45,000, are now being advertised, as department chiefs begin to look outside the organisation to find recruits prepared to work in the town.
  The 500 members left in the district are pinning their hopes on a recruitment drive on Saturday, February 1, when each member is asked to bring a new recruit along.
  All the student organizations are clamoring to find new recruits from among the freshmen, and anybody else who cares to come.
  Researchers studied the corporate structure of each organisation for its suitability in developing creativity, and interviewed recruits about their initial experiences.
  The organization is finding it difficult to get new recruits.
  The recruits undertake an initial two-week intensive course in Barrow, before starting their two-year probationary period with the crew.
  She plans to increase the organisation's recruits from 2,000 to just over 3,000 within the next three years.
  Synonyms
  new member, new entrant, newcomer, new boy, new girl, initiate

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the senses ‘fresh body of troops’ and ‘supplement the numbers in a group’): from obsolete French dialect recrute, based on Latin recrescere ‘grow again’, from re- ‘again’ + crescere ‘grow’.

单词	recruit
释义	Definition of recruit in English: recruit verb rɪˈkruːtrəˈkrut [with object] 1Enlist (someone) in the armed forces. we recruit our toughest soldiers from the desert tribes no object the regiment was still actively recruiting Example sentencesExamples Preparing newly recruited soldiers for immediate combat after graduation was not the main mission of basic training and advanced individual training a few years ago. Despite some less than optimistic predictions, we have recruited the right soldiers and kept the best and brightest troops in the Army so we can match the right faces to the correct places. Their soldiers are recruited from the U.S. Army, mainly from the Special Forces Green Berets and Rangers. Putting it bluntly, the Army needs to recruit those for infantry and other front line combat units who are prepared to advance upon and kill others, albeit in a disciplined and trained manner. The U.S. military, as always, is actively recruiting new members. The Navy is actively recruiting young men and women into its ranks at the moment and offers a wide and varied career to anyone interested in taking up a career at sea. Such a policy would make it easier to recruit soldiers and officers because their pay would be more competitive with the civilian market. They are also actively recruiting people for officer training with 70 cadets brought on board last October and a further 70 are due to be taken on in the next few weeks. Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted. The regular army and the National Guard continued to recruit volunteers, and the draft was held to remedy any deficiencies. Naismith was recruited into the army at the start of World War I, but suffered gassing in the trenches which ruined his health. Murray and Scales also argue that the United States should recruit different leaders for the specialized units needed for the asymmetrical battlefield. The Army has learned through painful experience and proudly proclaims that it recruits soldiers, but retains families. To that end, and upon the approval of the Secretary of Defense, the Army will recruit, train and bring into the force an additional 4,800 soldiers this year. Many other Western countries have also accumulated considerable experience in recruiting women for service in the modern armed forces. They will, therefore, continue to recruit officers and soldiers and offer young men the opportunity to serve in one of the best infantry battalions. Qualified combatants could be recruited for the national army and the police force. From 1994, it started to recruit children systematically and even created children's regiments. The Chief of Defence Staff said to achieve this, the military would have to recruit new soldiers between two and three times annually and build additional bases. In 1941, she proceeded to England where the British Special Operations Executive recruited her. Synonyms enlist, sign up, enrol, engage, take on, round up call up, conscript North American draft, muster in, induct historical press, press-gang, shanghai archaic levy, impress, list, conscribe, crimp, attest 1.1 Form (an army or other force) by enlisting new people. the weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army Example sentencesExamples To counter the offensive the British authorities began to recruit a special force for deployment in Ireland. Now we are recruiting an army for direct action. The Bengal army was recruited not from Bengal itself but from northern India, especially from Awadh. The first conscript armies were recruited in France to fight the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A new force was recruited, trained and dispatched by mid-August. As early as 1889, the Chamber of Mines recruited a labor force of black workers. Instead, he recruited a force of his own, consisting of out-of-uniform black officers from cities up and down the East Coast. The new paramilitary forces will be recruited from two sources: tribes and former army members. A company is recruiting an army of retired plumbers in a new approach to tackling the skills shortage. He started recruiting his army and sent an estimated 4,000 men to Afghanistan for training. Is he planning on recruiting an army or something? The state tolerated this situation, for it enabled it to recruit the army and raise taxes directly from the peasantry, without intermediaries. For now he's working behind the scenes, trying to build up a $250,000 war chest and recruit an army of campaigners. The industrial labour force was recruited from a number of sources. He is planning to forge even closer links with the public to help achieve this, recruiting an army of volunteers to supplement the work already being done by officers, special constables and community support officers. When the pope added debt relief for the families of those who fought, he had no trouble recruiting an army. Meanwhile airport bosses have recruited an army of private security workers to prevent the airport from grinding to a halt. And conscription was only used to recruit the militia, a reserve army never now mobilized except in wartime. And the Government has frittered away a huge fortune by recruiting a vast army of non-productive civil servants. Synonyms muster, form, raise, gather/bring together, assemble, mobilize, marshal, round up, call to arms 1.2 Enrol (someone) as a member or worker in an organization or as a supporter of a cause. there are plans to recruit more staff later this year Example sentencesExamples As the easiest way to get people to share your values is to hire people who already do, more organisations now recruit people with the right attitude, then train them in the skills they need. Actually, I'm trying to recruit a new team member at the moment (we're in online customer service). Now 10 extra permanent staff are being recruited to replace the agency workers. But the workers are beginning to recruit new union members from this shift. He eventually went to Cambridge University, and here Moscow recruited him as a member of the KGB. Turnover is the exception, and openings are promptly filled when they occur, often by candidates recruited by current staff members. He was doing poorly in school, and gang members were trying to recruit him. I do know that the organization is trying to recruit new members in this state, and that over two thousand of the current members are here. With my health clubs, the most effective marketing has always been to reward members for recruiting their friends, family and work colleagues. Waterford Chamber of Commerce are fully aware of the difficulties that its members are experiencing in recruiting suitable employees. In the same year, she was recruited as a member of the Shanghai Photographic Association. A national voluntary organisation is recruiting new members for their Laois branch. There are also plans to recruit an extra member of staff to help with the audio work. I have recruited excellent staff members at restaurants, athletic clubs, and even traveling on an airplane! They never mention whether our young people are recruited as white-collar workers or just underpaid, overworked laborers over there. She has served on the Membership Committee and has been involved in recruiting students and new members. It will be very difficult in this short space of time for parties and candidates to recruit staff, organise and launch their campaigns and obtain the necessary funding. She turned around to see Sandy, the crew member who'd recruited her. It can cost about £4,000 to recruit a new staff member, including advertising costs, training and the costs to the business of an unfilled vacancy. There are also plans to recruit junior doctors, so more staff will be on hand to treat patients. Synonyms hire, employ, take on, take into one's employ enrol, sign up, get, obtain, acquire 1.3informal with object and infinitive Persuade to do or help with something. she recruited her children to help run the racket Example sentencesExamples Some organizations openly recruit students to inform on their teachers. Security officials also have warned of plots by retired military officers to recruit soldiers on active duty to launch a coup d'état. To combat this, they are hoping to recruit dentists to do only NHS work. Schoolchildren have been recruited to persuade rail passengers that there is nothing funny about ‘leaves on the line’. They have been recruited to persuade citizens to report local villains. It has recruited celebrities and members of the public from across the Spanish-speaking world to read a section of the book each day. 2dated Replenish or reinvigorate (numbers, strength, etc.) travelling was said to recruit the constitution Example sentencesExamples If you're strong in the pull-up, add a weighted belt to recruit both strength and muscle size. Exercising moderately for 30 to 45 minutes seems to be just right in terms of recruiting the maximum number of lymphocytes. These are all multijoint movements that recruit a maximum number of muscle fibers, leading to an increase in anabolic-hormone production. noun rɪˈkruːtrəˈkrut 1A person newly enlisted in the armed forces and not yet fully trained. Example sentencesExamples Walsh had enlisted as a recruit with the Marines during 1933. In fact, in 2002 it was reported that 60 percent of all female recruits would serve in military positions previously excluded to them. The advanced soldier course will be in place for the first recruits marching into the Army Recruit Training Centre in February 2005. To put it baldly, we now have overpaid recruits and underpaid sergeants. Students with no other income are a major source of recruits for the part-time Army. Only by reducing the army and applying higher enlistment standards to all recruits could racial violence be reduced, essential in an army that is now one-third black. This program allows qualified civilian recruits to enlist specifically for Special Forces training. In addition, at least since the inception of the all-volunteer Army, the United States has never filled the Army exclusively with male recruits. To help meet its 2005 recruiting objectives, the Army's recruiting command has lowered some standards for recruits. The abuse of new recruits to our Army, while criminal, also greatly impedes successful recruitment efforts. The recruits they train are all volunteers who, unlike draftees dragged kicking and screaming into camp, willingly seek military service. This archive consists of hundreds of images of naked men, presumably fresh conscripts and army recruits, taken for an unknown kind of ethnographic exercise. Medical officers examined new recruits for physical fitness to regular army standards. Once minimally trained, most new recruits are quickly set out on the battlefield. The new recruits adapted well to military life and, although a few deserted or turned on their officers, proved loyal to the United States. Of the 20 who began the course earlier this year two have already enlisted and will begin recruit training at HMAS Cerberus in January. The new troops will train 1,000 raw recruits for the Sierra Leone army at a special camp. Around half of the new army's recruits have deserted or failed to make the grade, U.S. trainers say, leaving only about 2,500 soldiers. Yet in 1993, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps proposed that recruits be limited to single persons only, he was publicly rebuked. The intention is to influence many of those new recruits into becoming Army Reserve officers. Synonyms conscript, new soldier North American draftee, inductee British informal sprog North American informal plebe, buck private, yardbird 1.1 A new member of an organization or supporter of a cause. Example sentencesExamples David had been serving the club the previous day in his capacity as trainer of new recruits. Andersen Consulting is currently paying its student recruits £10,000 as a ‘golden hello’. The 500 members left in the district are pinning their hopes on a recruitment drive on Saturday, February 1, when each member is asked to bring a new recruit along. On the other hand, every pastor affirmed that if church members or new recruits are known to have AIDS they will be supported and treated well within the church. In both cases, 55 per cent of respondents said these were pushing their organisation to attract recruits from minority groups. Several jobs with salaries of up to £45,000, are now being advertised, as department chiefs begin to look outside the organisation to find recruits prepared to work in the town. Think again if onerous charges are imposed should the staff member want to transfer to another scheme, or if recruits are not allowed to join the scheme within three months of joining the company. All the student organizations are clamoring to find new recruits from among the freshmen, and anybody else who cares to come. Their Search and Rescue Team has about 50 members and this week launched an appeal for new recruits. Researchers studied the corporate structure of each organisation for its suitability in developing creativity, and interviewed recruits about their initial experiences. Most of the members have returned to their homeland and the local recruits did not stay on very long. They have had no trouble recently filling eight apprenticeships with local recruits, including some who are Aboriginal. The organization is finding it difficult to get new recruits. She plans to increase the organisation's recruits from 2,000 to just over 3,000 within the next three years. And thanks to an appeal in the Evening Advertiser for more members earlier this month, new recruits have been signing up to join the project in Parks and Walcot. The answer lies in the fact that, while the Advisory Council may be a recent creation, its members are not new recruits. The recruits undertake an initial two-week intensive course in Barrow, before starting their two-year probationary period with the crew. The staff wasn't prepared to mentor them; staff members mostly bit their tongues when the new recruits messed up. Fewer than a third of Labour party new recruits are now members of trade unions, the same proportion as in the population as a whole. We had no reports of recent antibiotic use and no reports of lice among the family members of recruits during the trial. Synonyms new member, new entrant, newcomer, new boy/girl, initiate trainee, apprentice beginner, novice, learner, tyro, neophyte, proselyte North American tenderfoot, hire informal rookie, new kid, newbie, cub North American informal greenhorn Derivatives recruitable adjective We went through a number of different designs and got input from focus groups of recruitable people, and this was the design that best conveyed the message we were trying to get out. Example sentencesExamples Next day he's washed up on a beach, still alive, conveniently suffering from amnesia, and is taken to a small town, called Lawson, where just about every youth of recruitable age was killed in the war. It's true that the better you train your people, the more recruitable they are. Origin Mid 17th century (in the senses 'fresh body of troops' and 'supplement the numbers in a group'): from obsolete French dialect recrute, based on Latin recrescere 'grow again', from re- 'again' + crescere 'grow'. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Definition of recruit in US English: recruit verbrəˈkrutrəˈkro͞ot [with object] 1Enlist (someone) in the armed forces. they recruit their toughest soldiers from the desert tribes no object the regiment was still actively recruiting Example sentencesExamples The Navy is actively recruiting young men and women into its ranks at the moment and offers a wide and varied career to anyone interested in taking up a career at sea. To that end, and upon the approval of the Secretary of Defense, the Army will recruit, train and bring into the force an additional 4,800 soldiers this year. The Chief of Defence Staff said to achieve this, the military would have to recruit new soldiers between two and three times annually and build additional bases. Despite some less than optimistic predictions, we have recruited the right soldiers and kept the best and brightest troops in the Army so we can match the right faces to the correct places. Their soldiers are recruited from the U.S. Army, mainly from the Special Forces Green Berets and Rangers. In 1941, she proceeded to England where the British Special Operations Executive recruited her. Naismith was recruited into the army at the start of World War I, but suffered gassing in the trenches which ruined his health. They will, therefore, continue to recruit officers and soldiers and offer young men the opportunity to serve in one of the best infantry battalions. Such a policy would make it easier to recruit soldiers and officers because their pay would be more competitive with the civilian market. Many other Western countries have also accumulated considerable experience in recruiting women for service in the modern armed forces. The regular army and the National Guard continued to recruit volunteers, and the draft was held to remedy any deficiencies. From 1994, it started to recruit children systematically and even created children's regiments. Putting it bluntly, the Army needs to recruit those for infantry and other front line combat units who are prepared to advance upon and kill others, albeit in a disciplined and trained manner. Preparing newly recruited soldiers for immediate combat after graduation was not the main mission of basic training and advanced individual training a few years ago. Qualified combatants could be recruited for the national army and the police force. Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted. They are also actively recruiting people for officer training with 70 cadets brought on board last October and a further 70 are due to be taken on in the next few weeks. Murray and Scales also argue that the United States should recruit different leaders for the specialized units needed for the asymmetrical battlefield. The U.S. military, as always, is actively recruiting new members. The Army has learned through painful experience and proudly proclaims that it recruits soldiers, but retains families. Synonyms enlist, sign up, enrol, engage, take on, round up 1.1 Form (an army or other force) by enlisting new people. a basis for recruiting an army Example sentencesExamples The new paramilitary forces will be recruited from two sources: tribes and former army members. And the Government has frittered away a huge fortune by recruiting a vast army of non-productive civil servants. Meanwhile airport bosses have recruited an army of private security workers to prevent the airport from grinding to a halt. A new force was recruited, trained and dispatched by mid-August. And conscription was only used to recruit the militia, a reserve army never now mobilized except in wartime. The industrial labour force was recruited from a number of sources. Now we are recruiting an army for direct action. When the pope added debt relief for the families of those who fought, he had no trouble recruiting an army. For now he's working behind the scenes, trying to build up a $250,000 war chest and recruit an army of campaigners. The Bengal army was recruited not from Bengal itself but from northern India, especially from Awadh. The first conscript armies were recruited in France to fight the revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Is he planning on recruiting an army or something? He started recruiting his army and sent an estimated 4,000 men to Afghanistan for training. Instead, he recruited a force of his own, consisting of out-of-uniform black officers from cities up and down the East Coast. The state tolerated this situation, for it enabled it to recruit the army and raise taxes directly from the peasantry, without intermediaries. He is planning to forge even closer links with the public to help achieve this, recruiting an army of volunteers to supplement the work already being done by officers, special constables and community support officers. A company is recruiting an army of retired plumbers in a new approach to tackling the skills shortage. To counter the offensive the British authorities began to recruit a special force for deployment in Ireland. As early as 1889, the Chamber of Mines recruited a labor force of black workers. Synonyms muster, form, raise, bring together, gather together, assemble, mobilize, marshal, round up, call to arms 1.2 Enroll (someone) as a member or worker in an organization or as a supporter of a cause. there are plans to recruit more staff later this year Example sentencesExamples They never mention whether our young people are recruited as white-collar workers or just underpaid, overworked laborers over there. Turnover is the exception, and openings are promptly filled when they occur, often by candidates recruited by current staff members. Now 10 extra permanent staff are being recruited to replace the agency workers. In the same year, she was recruited as a member of the Shanghai Photographic Association. She has served on the Membership Committee and has been involved in recruiting students and new members. I have recruited excellent staff members at restaurants, athletic clubs, and even traveling on an airplane! Waterford Chamber of Commerce are fully aware of the difficulties that its members are experiencing in recruiting suitable employees. It will be very difficult in this short space of time for parties and candidates to recruit staff, organise and launch their campaigns and obtain the necessary funding. Actually, I'm trying to recruit a new team member at the moment (we're in online customer service). I do know that the organization is trying to recruit new members in this state, and that over two thousand of the current members are here. A national voluntary organisation is recruiting new members for their Laois branch. With my health clubs, the most effective marketing has always been to reward members for recruiting their friends, family and work colleagues. He was doing poorly in school, and gang members were trying to recruit him. As the easiest way to get people to share your values is to hire people who already do, more organisations now recruit people with the right attitude, then train them in the skills they need. It can cost about £4,000 to recruit a new staff member, including advertising costs, training and the costs to the business of an unfilled vacancy. There are also plans to recruit an extra member of staff to help with the audio work. But the workers are beginning to recruit new union members from this shift. There are also plans to recruit junior doctors, so more staff will be on hand to treat patients. He eventually went to Cambridge University, and here Moscow recruited him as a member of the KGB. She turned around to see Sandy, the crew member who'd recruited her. Synonyms hire, employ, take on, take into one's employ 1.3informal with object and infinitive Persuade (someone) to do or assist in doing something. she recruited her children to help run the racket Example sentencesExamples Security officials also have warned of plots by retired military officers to recruit soldiers on active duty to launch a coup d'état. It has recruited celebrities and members of the public from across the Spanish-speaking world to read a section of the book each day. Some organizations openly recruit students to inform on their teachers. Schoolchildren have been recruited to persuade rail passengers that there is nothing funny about ‘leaves on the line’. To combat this, they are hoping to recruit dentists to do only NHS work. They have been recruited to persuade citizens to report local villains. nounrəˈkrutrəˈkro͞ot 1A person newly enlisted in the armed forces and not yet fully trained. 3,000 army recruits at Ft. Benjamin Example sentencesExamples Yet in 1993, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps proposed that recruits be limited to single persons only, he was publicly rebuked. The recruits they train are all volunteers who, unlike draftees dragged kicking and screaming into camp, willingly seek military service. Students with no other income are a major source of recruits for the part-time Army. To put it baldly, we now have overpaid recruits and underpaid sergeants. Walsh had enlisted as a recruit with the Marines during 1933. This archive consists of hundreds of images of naked men, presumably fresh conscripts and army recruits, taken for an unknown kind of ethnographic exercise. The advanced soldier course will be in place for the first recruits marching into the Army Recruit Training Centre in February 2005. To help meet its 2005 recruiting objectives, the Army's recruiting command has lowered some standards for recruits. In fact, in 2002 it was reported that 60 percent of all female recruits would serve in military positions previously excluded to them. This program allows qualified civilian recruits to enlist specifically for Special Forces training. The abuse of new recruits to our Army, while criminal, also greatly impedes successful recruitment efforts. In addition, at least since the inception of the all-volunteer Army, the United States has never filled the Army exclusively with male recruits. Once minimally trained, most new recruits are quickly set out on the battlefield. Medical officers examined new recruits for physical fitness to regular army standards. The new recruits adapted well to military life and, although a few deserted or turned on their officers, proved loyal to the United States. Around half of the new army's recruits have deserted or failed to make the grade, U.S. trainers say, leaving only about 2,500 soldiers. The new troops will train 1,000 raw recruits for the Sierra Leone army at a special camp. The intention is to influence many of those new recruits into becoming Army Reserve officers. Of the 20 who began the course earlier this year two have already enlisted and will begin recruit training at HMAS Cerberus in January. Only by reducing the army and applying higher enlistment standards to all recruits could racial violence be reduced, essential in an army that is now one-third black. Synonyms conscript, new soldier 1.1 A new member of an organization or a new supporter of a cause. after agreeing on a salary, the new recruit failed to turn up on Monday morning Example sentencesExamples Think again if onerous charges are imposed should the staff member want to transfer to another scheme, or if recruits are not allowed to join the scheme within three months of joining the company. Their Search and Rescue Team has about 50 members and this week launched an appeal for new recruits. Fewer than a third of Labour party new recruits are now members of trade unions, the same proportion as in the population as a whole. David had been serving the club the previous day in his capacity as trainer of new recruits. On the other hand, every pastor affirmed that if church members or new recruits are known to have AIDS they will be supported and treated well within the church. The answer lies in the fact that, while the Advisory Council may be a recent creation, its members are not new recruits. We had no reports of recent antibiotic use and no reports of lice among the family members of recruits during the trial. They have had no trouble recently filling eight apprenticeships with local recruits, including some who are Aboriginal. The staff wasn't prepared to mentor them; staff members mostly bit their tongues when the new recruits messed up. In both cases, 55 per cent of respondents said these were pushing their organisation to attract recruits from minority groups. Most of the members have returned to their homeland and the local recruits did not stay on very long. Andersen Consulting is currently paying its student recruits £10,000 as a ‘golden hello’. And thanks to an appeal in the Evening Advertiser for more members earlier this month, new recruits have been signing up to join the project in Parks and Walcot. Several jobs with salaries of up to £45,000, are now being advertised, as department chiefs begin to look outside the organisation to find recruits prepared to work in the town. The 500 members left in the district are pinning their hopes on a recruitment drive on Saturday, February 1, when each member is asked to bring a new recruit along. All the student organizations are clamoring to find new recruits from among the freshmen, and anybody else who cares to come. Researchers studied the corporate structure of each organisation for its suitability in developing creativity, and interviewed recruits about their initial experiences. The organization is finding it difficult to get new recruits. The recruits undertake an initial two-week intensive course in Barrow, before starting their two-year probationary period with the crew. She plans to increase the organisation's recruits from 2,000 to just over 3,000 within the next three years. Synonyms new member, new entrant, newcomer, new boy, new girl, initiate Origin Mid 17th century (in the senses ‘fresh body of troops’ and ‘supplement the numbers in a group’): from obsolete French dialect recrute, based on Latin recrescere ‘grow again’, from re- ‘again’ + crescere ‘grow’.
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