recruit
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French recruter (as a verb).
Pronunciation
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Noun
recruit (plural recruits)
- A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
- A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
- A hired worker
- These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews
- (biology, ecology) A new member of a certain population, usually a juvenile.
Translations
supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement
newly enlisted soldier
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hired worker
biology: new member of population
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Verb
recruit (third-person singular simple present recruits, present participle recruiting, simple past and past participle recruited)
- To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
- We need to recruit more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products
- To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
- the army was recruited for a campaign
- they were looking to recruit two thousand troops for battle
- (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
- Food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.
- (Can we date this quote by Glanvill and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their colour.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- “You have surprized my poor niece so, that she can hardly, I see, support herself.——Go, my dear, retire, and endeavour to recruit your spirits; for I see you have occasion.” At which words Sophia, who never received a more welcome command, hastily withdrew.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 148:
- […] I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced to recruit myself with food.
- (dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
- Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
- Go to the country to recruit.
- (biochemistry) To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
Translations
to enroll or enlist new members or potential employees
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to supply with new men, as an army
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to replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies
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to recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like
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To prompt to intervene in a body region
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