Definitions for recruit
rɪˈkrutre·cruit

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. recruit, military recruitnoun

   a recently enlisted soldier

2. recruit, enlisteeverb

   any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)

3. enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruitverb

   register formally as a participant or member

   "The party recruited many new members"

4. recruitverb

   seek to employ

   "The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants"

5. recruit, levy, raiseverb

   cause to assemble or enlist in the military

   "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recruitnoun

   A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.

2. recruitnoun

   A man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

3. recruitnoun

   A hired worker

   These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews

4. recruitverb

   To make an attempt to enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, military, etc.

   We need to recruit' more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products

5. recruitverb

   To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster

6. recruitverb

   To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy lack or deficiency in

7. recruitverb

   To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like

8. Etymology: From recruter (as a verb).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recruitnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Supply of any thing wasted.

   Whatever nature has in worth deny’d,
   She gives in large recruits of needful pride. Alexander Pope.

   The endeavour to raise new men for the recruit of the army found opposition. Edward Hyde.

   2. New soldiers.

   The pow’rs of Troy
   With fresh recruits their youthful chief sustain:
   Not theirs a raw and unexperienc’d train,
   But a firm body of embattel’d men. Dryden.

2. To Recruitverb

   Etymology: recruter, Fr.

   1. To repair any thing wasted by new supplies.

   He was longer in recruiting his flesh than was usual; but by a milk diet he recovered it. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

   Increase thy care to save the sinking kind;
   With greens and flow’rs recruit their empty hives,
   And seek fresh forage to sustain their lives. Dryden.

   Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their colour;
   As flowers by sprinkling revive with fresh odour. George Granville.

   This sun is set; but see in bright array
   What hosts of heavenly lights recruit the day!
   Love in a shining galaxy appears
   Triumphant still. George Granville.

   Seeing the variety of motion, which we find in the world is always decreasing, there is a necessity of conserving and recruiting it by active principles; such as are the cause of gravity, by which planets and comets keep their motions in their orbs, and bodies acquire great motion in falling. Newt.

   2. To supply an army with new men.

   He trusted the earl of Holland with the command of that army, with which he was to be recruited and assisted. Clar.

3. To Recruitverb

   To raise new soldiers.

   The French have only Switzerland besides their own country to recruit in; and we know the difficulties they meet with in getting thence a single regiment. Addison.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recruit

   A recruit is an individual who has recently joined a company, organization, or a team, often undergoing training or a learning period. The term can also be used as a verb referring to the act of enlisting people into a group or organization, or persuading them to do something.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recruitverb

   to repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits

2. Recruitverb

   hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate

3. Recruitverb

   to supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men

4. Recruitverb

   to gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures

5. Recruitverb

   to gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops

6. Recruitnoun

   a supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement

7. Recruitnoun

   specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier

8. Etymology: [F. recruter, corrupted (under influence of recrue recruiting, recruit, from recro/tre, p. p. recr, to grow again) from an older recluter, properly, to patch, to mend (a garment); pref. re- + OF. clut piece, piece of cloth; cf. Icel. kltr kerchief, E. clout.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recruit

   Recruit Co., Ltd. is a classified advertisement, publication and human resources company in Japan, founded in 1963 originally as an advertisement company specialized in university newspapers.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recruit

   rē-krōōt′, v.i. to obtain fresh supplies: to recover in health, &c.: to enlist new soldiers.—v.t. to repair: to supply: to supply with recruits.—n. the supply of any want: a substitute for something wanting: a newly enlisted soldier.—ns. Recruit′al, renewed supply; Recruit′er.—adj. Recruit′ing, obtaining new supplies: enlisting recruits.—n. the business of obtaining new supplies or enlisting new soldiers.—ns. Recruit′ing-ground, a place where recruits may be obtained; Recruit′ing-par′ty, a party of soldiers engaged in enlisting recruits; Recruit′ing-ser′geant, a sergeant who enlists recruits; Recruit′ment, the act, business, or employment of raising new supplies of men for an army. [O. Fr. recruter—re-, croître—L. recrescĕre—re-, again, crescĕre, to grow.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recruit

   To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment. Also, a person enlisted to make up deficiency in an army; a newly-enlisted soldier.

Matched Categories

1. • Engage

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'recruit' in Verbs Frequency: #733

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How to pronounce recruit?

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   British

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How to say recruit in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of recruit in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of recruit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of recruit in a Sentence

1. Rick Scott:

   Over the next four years, I will be traveling to your states personally to recruit you here.

2. Barack Obama:

   This legislation specifically impedes our ability to close Guantanamo in a way I have repeatedly argued is counterproductive to our efforts to defeat terrorism around the world, guantanamo is one of the premier mechanisms for jihadists to recruit.

3. Dianne Feinstein:

   He was not a mole or a spy, but someone who a foreign intelligence service thought it could recruit.

4. Lloyd Austin:

   ISIL needs those funds to pay their fighters, to recruit new fighters and to conduct their various maligned activities, you know, we said from the outset of this campaign that to defeat ISIL, we're going to have to take away its ability to resource.

5. Abigail Spanberger:

   Recruit the best. The best can train police officers across the board and retain them.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=recruit
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Recruit
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=recruit
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recruit
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=recruit
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=recruit
8. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=recruit