Crossword clues for recruited
recruited
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: recruit)
Usage examples of "recruited".
My administrative staff was recruited and trained by BuRelock, and all the competent people have been recalled to Earth.
Miscowsky had been recruited from Haven, and his primary training was for mountain operations.
Educated people would be one of the chokepoints for a guerrilla force recruited mainly from transportees.
Merely tell them that you were recruited on Tanith, and you have been sent to the University for formal training.
They agreed because they found fascinating the people Will had already recruited and Markowitz turned out to be a would-be professional photographer.
Few of the individuals recruited thus far display even the most rudimentary knowledge of astronomy and none whatsoever of the mechanics in celestial navigation involved.
Those who are recruited and their minds change respond appropriately to treatment and to their lives return forgetful of what they have seen and heard here.
Not all those recruited for training were altruistic or even merely greedy.
They were not politicians, or professional soldiers, but ordinary souls recruited off the streets of Central America.
She would be an innocent, absolutely believing the Shahryar cover story, and had been recruited for her technical skills, her liking for a semisolitary life, and probably a certain naivete.
A couple low-level informants told us that an Iranian by that name had recruited the suicide bomber who drove an explosive-packed GMC pickup truck into the lobby of our embassy in Beirut.
Mousavi also supposedly recruited the suicide bomber who drove a truck into the Marine barracks near the airport.
He was born on the Jimajen estates, got recruited as a spy at the university in Carthak, and came home to do intelligence for the army.
They had to see her calm and in control, these people who had only ever known the pack member who had recruited them.
Reuven had recruited Yassin in 1990 when the Palestinian brought his wife to Paris for medical treatment.