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recruit

//ɹɪˈkɹut//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for recruit

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
recruits

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
recruit
past (v2)
recruited
past participle (v3)
recruited
present participle
recruiting
3rd person singular
recruits

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.

  2. 2.A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

  3. 3.A hired worker

  4. 4.A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.

  2. 2.To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster

  3. 3.To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.

  4. 4.To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3636

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From French recruter (as a verb).

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