recruit
//ɹɪˈkɹut//
Forms
- Plural
- recruits
- present (v1)
- recruit
- past (v2)
- recruited
- past participle (v3)
- recruited
- present participle
- recruiting
- 3rd person singular
- recruits
Definitions
1.A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
2.A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
3.A hired worker
4.A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
1.To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
2.To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
3.To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
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).