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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recruit
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an army recruit
▪ The army recruits must undergo basic training.
recruit employees (=offer them jobs)
▪ We are recruiting employees for our IT division.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
army
▪ Each province and each city state has its own separate army which it recruits, trains, and maintains.
▪ Of the first 126 soldiers relieved from duty in an army recruiting scandal, only three were officers.
▪ The army had recruited talented engineers and others from all over the United States for special duty on the project.
candidate
▪ They need to recruit the best possible candidates.
▪ And it is recruiting attractive candidates for the Senate and House.
▪ It also insisted that each committee must recruit candidates to be trained by the Union to act as local health workers.
company
▪ A company that consistently recruits from outside induces its staff to move elsewhere - this is expensive in terms of lost experience.
▪ Together, these companies plan to recruit well over 50, 000 workers during 1996&038;.
▪ This is particularly true when companies recruit young women and members of minority groups into nontraditional fields.
▪ In Rennes a company of children was recruited from the more affluent middle class.
▪ Beyster created his company quietly, recruiting talented scientists and making friends in government circles.
▪ It is an offence for companies to recruit a non-disabled worker when they are below the quota.
employee
▪ Unfortunately, they allowed his notice to expire without further action and proceeded to recruit new employees.
▪ Industries with critical labor shortages launched youth apprenticeships as a way to recruit skilled employees.
▪ Have you costed out how much it costs to recruit a key employee?
employer
▪ Fewer employers are seeking to recruit at 16+. 21.
▪ Start comparing different employers and how they recruit, what they want and what they are offering.
▪ Such advances are helping to chip away local employer prejudice against recruiting from the estate.
▪ Some employers recruit on the basis of interviews held in hotels as visiting recruitment forums.
officer
▪ We recruit uniformed officers into plain clothes so that people like yourself, who are being eliminated, won't feel under pressure.
▪ Eventually, the sole military person on the base was a junior lieutenant recruited as commissary officer.
▪ The recruiting officer signed him up with a conspirator's wink.
▪ She was probably important, an adviser to radical students and a recruiting officer or handler of agents.
▪ The Commander-in-Chief agreed to the plan and also authorized Stirling to recruit a further six officers and up to forty men.
personnel
▪ We have recruited new personnel and moved some people around inside the company.
▪ After World War I its activities were severely limited by lack of funds and its inability to recruit good personnel.
service
▪ Three out of every four traitors were volunteers, it found; fewer than a quarter were recruited by hostile intelligence services.
staff
▪ Against this background, it's no surprise that housing associations are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain staff.
▪ It takes months to recruit a new staff of investigators.
▪ Throughout the 1980s there were drives to recruit more specialist fraud staff.
▪ But all Kent schools were finding it difficult to recruit supply staff.
▪ There are plans to recruit more staff later this year.
▪ The University wishes to continue to recruit and retain staff of the highest quality.
▪ Wherever possible we recruit skilled staff locally.
volunteer
▪ Just as important, Dwyer launched a major public consultation exercise, recruiting 100 volunteers representing a cross section of the population.
▪ The council race is non-partisan but party affiliation often helps in recruiting volunteers and raising money.
▪ In response to such shortages bureaux may mount campaigns to recruit more volunteers.
▪ The National Lottery may be a catalyst for a change in this attitude, and so might the problems with recruiting volunteers.
worker
▪ A near neighbour was recruited as a support worker and she too began to become involved in the family arguments.
▪ They need organizing, encouraging and recruiting by full-time paid workers.
▪ Management moved immediately to recruit workers in almost every department of the factory.
▪ It is an offence for companies to recruit a non-disabled worker when they are below the quota.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Efforts to recruit more men to the priesthood have not been successful.
▪ For the controlled study on drinking habits, we recruited men between 35 and 45.
▪ It's getting more and more difficult to recruit experienced staff.
▪ The police department is trying to recruit more black officers.
▪ The Young Adventurers are trying to recruit more girls.
▪ We're not recruiting at the moment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Great Groups are headed by people confident enough to recruit people better than themselves.
▪ If you recruit under pressure because you are short of people, you will recruit apes.
▪ Quintas told police he was recruited by a man in Brighton who has not been traced.
▪ The 10-player team is recruited from a student body of 96, only 42 of which are girls.
▪ The person who recruited Nowak, or who had been recruited by him, would be trembling with anticipation.
▪ There were others who would have to be recruited.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
female
▪ Three other female recruits have also accused him of rape.
▪ Then, allegations from five female recruits during his comeback cut short his new career.
new
▪ Sometimes the Party establishment, in its political moods, falls to judge the mood of its new recruits.
▪ You could tell he was a new recruit.
▪ In recent years the standard of new recruits has risen.
▪ He was scared to death, and his head was almost shaved like new recruits in armies the world over.
▪ Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits.
▪ And we help you enlist a new set of recruits at work and at home.
▪ A new recruit to the service will be paid £243-a-week, £11 more.
▪ Or are the few crabs that we see so voracious that any new recruit stands little chance of survival?
potential
▪ Circulate brochures and leaflets to all locations which are frequented by potential recruits.
▪ In de Gaulle's mind, the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits.
▪ Finding the potential source of recruits for the future is not an easy task.
▪ Bad today, the situation will get worse when in a few years the number of potential recruits begins to decline.
▪ Any potential recruit knew the score.
▪ Over time, a comprehensive mailing list of nurses can be constructed, all of whom are potential recruits.
▪ I also attended a number of the introductory workshops to which potential recruits are invited.
▪ Our problem is how best to bring our course offer to the attention of potential recruits.
raw
▪ When Charlie heard the news of victory he was training some raw recruits on a rifle range in Edinburgh.
▪ The firm replaced many of the sacked workers with raw recruits hired in areas of high unemployment nearby.
▪ Former workers repeatedly insisted there were quality problems with work after they were sacked and replaced by raw recruits.
▪ But the notion that these raw recruits were the critical ingredient is open to doubt.
▪ Now Haseley was big, really big, and I was the smallest there, a raw recruit to the international scene.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At many banks, young recruits first work as tellers.
▪ At most banks, young recruits spend a few months working as tellers.
▪ Peter is one of our new recruits.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And like Travieso, he became a well-known high school player, an All-State selection and a coveted recruit.
▪ Any potential recruit knew the score.
▪ Its boasts about fanatical recruits lining up for paradise through the martyrdom of suicide-bombing may be bluster.
▪ No questions were asked as long as recruits accepted the harsh conditions and the unit's strict code of honour.
▪ The first day that Bailey and other recruits can sign with schools is April 10.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recruit

Recruit \Re*cruit"\, v. i.

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

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

Recruit

Recruit \Re*cruit"\, n.

  1. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a re["e]nforcement.

    The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers.
    --Burke.

  2. Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

Recruit

Recruit \Re*cruit"\ (r?*kr?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recruited; p. pr. & vb. n. Recruiting.] [F. recruter, corrupted (under influence of recrue recruiting, recruit, from recro[^i]/tre, p. p. recr[^u], to grow again) from an older recluter, properly, to patch, to mend (a garment); pref. re- + OF. clut piece, piece of cloth; cf. Icel. kl[=u]tr kerchief, E. clout.]

  1. 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.

    Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color.
    --Glanvill.

  2. Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.

  3. 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.
    --M. Arnold.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recruit

1630s, "to strengthen, reinforce," from French recruter (17c.), from recrute "a levy, a recruit" (see recruit (n.)). Sense of "to enlist new soldiers" is attested from 1650s; of student athletes, from 1913. Related: Recruited; recruiting.

recruit

"military reinforcement, one of a newly raised body of troops," 1640s, from recruit (v)., replacing earlier recrew, recrue; or from obsolete French recrute, alteration of recreue "a supply," recrue "a levy of troops" (late 16c.), Picardy or Hainault dialect variant of recrue "a levy, a recruit," literally "new growth," from Old French recreu (12c.), past participle of recreistre "grow or increase again," from re- "again" (see re-) + creistre "to grow," from Latin crescere "to grow" (see crescent). "The French word first appeared in literary use in gazettes published in Holland, and was disapproved of by French writers in the latter part of the 17th c." [OED]. The French word also is the source of Dutch recruut, German Recrut, Swedish rekryt.

Wiktionary
recruit

n. 1 A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement. 2 A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier. 3 A hired worker 4 (context biology ecology English) A new member of a certain population, usually referring to a juvenile. vb. 1 To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, military, etc. 2 To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster 3 (context archaic English) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy lack or deficiency in 4 (context dated intransitive English) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like

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WordNet
recruit

  1. n. a recently enlisted soldier

  2. any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn: enlistee]

  3. v. register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol]

  4. seek to employ; "The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants"

  5. cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: levy, raise]

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Wikipedia
Recruit

Recruit can refer to:

Military personnel
  • a recently enlisted member of a military or paramilitary corps, still in training, as in:
    • Army recruit
    • Seaman recruit
  • the lowest enlisted Ranks of the Austrian Bundesheer, NATO equivalent to the NATO OR-1 grade

  • (en: recruit) a military person (OR-1) of the German Bundeswehr without any rank or grade during the basic training

Entertainment
  • The Recruit, 2003 film starring Al Pacino
  • Recruits (TV series), a 2009 Australian TV series about the New South Wales Police Force
  • "The Recruit" (Dad's Army episode), 1973 British TV episode
  • CHERUB: The Recruit, 2004 novel
Ships

  • , various ships of Britain's Royal Navy

  • , various ships of the U.S. Navy

Other
  • Recruit (Japanese company), an advertisement, publication and human resources company
Recruit (company)

Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. (株式会社リクルートホールディングス) is a classified advertisement, publication and human resources company in Japan, founded in 1963 originally as an advertisement company specialized in university newspapers.

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Usage examples of "recruit".

So corporate America fought back, recruiting members of Congress to take on the SEC and the standard setters at the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

Uncle Sam was called to fight for humanity, and only an approximation of the condition can be made, for about two-thirds of the National Guard had been taken into the regular service incident to the trouble with Mexico, when the Guardsmen were summoned to the border to protect the country, and recruiting was proceeding in all branches of the service to bring all the regiments up to a war footing.

Wethern, vice-president of the Oakland chapter and best friend to Sonny Barger who recruits him in 1958, tires of the pace in 1969.

All day we trudged along roads which were quagmires, over our ankles in mud, until in the evening we made our way to Bridgewater, where we gained some recruits, and also some hundred pounds for our military chest, for it was a well-to-do place, with a thriving coast trade carried on down the River Parret.

Instead of approaching investment bankers who were working on deals in secret and knew about them before the rest of the market, Oliver had recruited four back-office people who worked in compliance areas of brokerage houses and investment banking firms on Wall Street.

Tallam had told Bronden that Seeklat was to look for new recruits to serve with the Ashanti servants.

Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.

There was no more speech except of a proud advance towards Jerusalem upon the expiry of the truce, and the measures to be taken in the meantime for supplying and recruiting the army.

It must be that young potential recruits are just a bunch of homophobes in need of re-education.

Weems, in his life of our subject, gives us some pictures, equally lively and ludicrous, of his progress in the business of recruiting, upon which, in connection with his friend, Captain Horry, he at once begun.

These malpractice attorneys must have recruited Trent Harding to contaminate Marcaine ampules and place them in OR supplies.

The usual organization is only one or two recruits to a maniple, and I wondered why Lieberman had set this one up this way.

Normal practice is to form each maniple with one recruit, three privates, and a monitor in charge.

Frank Adams, my superior, sent me on this assignment, just as he recruited Mano and Hogan.

Larut, although aided by Captain Speedy and a force of well-drilled troops recruited by him in India, and possessing four Krupp guns, was powerless to restore order, and Larut was destroyed, being absolutely turned into a wilderness, in which all but three houses had been burned, and, while the Malays had fled, the surviving Si Kwans were living behind stockades, while those of the faction opposed to that with which the Mentri and his Commander-in-Chief, Captain Speedy, had allied themselves, were living on the products of orchards from which their owners had been driven, and on booty, won by a wholesale system of piracy and murder, practiced not only on the Perak waters but on the high seas.