recruitment

English

Etymology

recruit +‎ -ment, (French: recrutement)

Noun

recruitment (countable and uncountable, plural recruitments)

1. The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or of recruits for the armed forces
2. A style or process of recruiting
   • 2009, January 7, “Pete Thamel”, in Tebow and Bradford: Different Ways to Reach Summit^[1]:

     Tebow's and Bradford's production and leadership are undeniable, but their recruitments, offenses and personalities are vastly different.

3. (biology, ecology) The addition of new recruits to a population.

Derived terms

• hyperrecruitment
• overrecruitment
• underrecruitment

Related terms

• recruiter

Translations

process or art of finding candidates or recruits

• Catalan: reclutament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招聘 (zh) (zhāopìn), 招收 (zh) (zhāoshōu)

• Estonian: värbamine
• Finnish: rekrytointi (fi), värväys (fi)
• French: recrutement (fr) m
• Galician: recrutamento (gl) m
• Georgian: გაწვევა (gac̣veva), დაკომპლექტება (daḳomṗlekṭeba), რეკრუტირება (reḳruṭireba)
• German: Rekrutierung (de) f
• Hungarian: toborzás (hu)
• Irish: earcaíocht f

• Italian: reclutamento (it) m
• Japanese: 募集 (ja) (ぼしゅう, boshū)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rekruttering m, f

  Nynorsk: rekruttering f

• Portuguese: recrutamento (pt)
• Russian: вербо́вка (ru) f (verbóvka), набо́р (ru) m (nabór), наём (ru) m (najóm)
• Spanish: reclutamiento (es)
• Swedish: rekrytering
• Tagalog: pagsungko