recruitment

English

Etymology

From recruit +‎ -ment. French recrutement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɪˈkruːt.mənt /

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

recruitment (countable and uncountable, plural recruitments)

1. The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.
   • 2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87:

     'The recruitment of 72 new drivers means that we will have the resource to deliver additional services' said the spokesman.

2. A style or process of recruiting.
   • 2009 January 7, Pete Thamel, “Tebow and Bradford: Different Ways to Reach Summit”, in New York Times‎^[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 adult or breeding-age individuals (recruits) to a population.
4. (physiology) The full aeration of a lung.
5. (medicine) Opening of collapsed lung alveoli by means of controlled increase in transpulmonary pressure using mechanical ventilation. (treatment strategy for ARDS)
6. (medicine) A physical condition of the inner ear that leads to reduced tolerance of loudness, commonly occurring in those with hearing loss due to cochlear damage.

Derived terms

• derecruitment
• e-recruitment
• hyperrecruitment
• overrecruitment
• underrecruitment

Related terms

• recruiter

Translations

process or art of finding candidates or recruits

• Albanian: rekrutim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعْبِئَة f (taʕbiʔa)
• Belarusian: вярбо́ўка f (vjarbóŭka), набо́р m (nabór), вербава́нне n (vjerbavánnje), рэкру́тынг m (rekrútynh)
• Bulgarian: рекрути́ране (bg) n (rekrutírane), наби́ране n (nabírane)
• Catalan: reclutament
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: nábor m, najímání n
• Danish: rekruttering c
• Dutch: werving (nl) f
• Estonian: värbamine, nekrutivõtmine (military)
• Finnish: rekrytointi (fi), värväys (fi)
• French: recrutement (fr) m
• Galician: recrutamento (gl) m
• Georgian: გაწვევა (gac̣veva), დაკომპლექტება (daḳomṗlekṭeba), რეკრუტირება (reḳruṭireba)
• German: Rekrutierung (de) f, Anwerbung (de) f
• Greek: στρατολόγηση (el) f (stratológisi)
• Hungarian: toborzás (hu)
• Indonesian: rekrutmen (id), perekrutan (id), penerimaan (id)
• Irish: earcaíocht f
• Italian: reclutamento (it) m
• Japanese: 募集 (ja) (ぼしゅう, boshū), 求人 (ja) (きゅうじん, kyūjin)
• Korean: 모집(募集) (ko) (mojip), 채용(採用) (ko) (chaeyong)
• Latin: conquīsītiō f
• Latvian: vervēšana f, iesaukšana f (military)
• Lithuanian: verbavimas m, šaukimas m (military)
• Macedonian: собирање n (sobiranje), регрутација f (regrutacija)
• Malay: perekrutan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rekruttering m or f

  Nynorsk: rekruttering f

• Polish: rekrutacja (pl) f, werbunek m
• Portuguese: recrutamento (pt)
• Romanian: recrutare (ro) f
• Russian: вербо́вка (ru) f (verbóvka), набо́р (ru) m (nabór), наём (ru) m (najóm), рекру́тинг (ru) m (rekrúting)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: врбовање n

  Roman: vrbovanje n

• Slovak: nábor m
• Spanish: reclutamiento (es) m
• Swedish: rekrytering (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagsungko
• Ukrainian: вербува́ння n (verbuvánnja), вербу́нок m (verbúnok), набі́р m (nabír), наймання́ n (najmannjá), найо́м m (najóm), рекру́тинг m (rekrútynh)

Opening of collapsed lung alveoli

• German: Rekrutierung (de) f, Recruitment n