recruit
IPA: rʌkrˈut
noun
- A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
- A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
- A hired worker
- (biology, ecology) A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
verb
- To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
- To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
- (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
- (biology, intransitive) To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
- (biochemistry) To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
- (dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
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Examples of "recruit" in Sentences
- In contrast, private schools usually recruit from the surrounding environs.
- Welcome back, Tightliner, and congratulations of your performance in recruit training!
- Terry Raymond, aka T-Ray, fills the role of the team's newest recruit is is the same typical invincible spirit we've come to know in our youngest X-Men.
- He has a time of 10.33 seconds for 100 meters and the five-star recruit is plenty productive on the field, with 4,127 yards and 52 touchdowns in his high school career.
- The fact that Wilson was the less heralded recruit is not lost on O'Brien, who seemingly gives the same speech every signing day about how he doesn't care about the rankings.
- He's the epitome of what the school was hoping for when it hired Strong: a top recruit from a big-time area that was stolen away from major programs and should be a fixture in the linebacking corps for years to come.
- But the hyper-athletic swingman has the kind of hops and length that make him extremely interesting as a long-term recruit, which is probably why he's getting looks from teams who he couldn't get a minute on right now.
- You go and recruit from a crime-ridden inner city for your team – even getting some guys who have records – bending your admission standards considerably – and not only do you not have a good football team, but you get some near date-rape – or at least some fast talking, fast-movers who want what they want when they want it and getit.
- Health Economics Too Fat to Fight In America, the pool of citizens from which the military recruits has grown so out-of-shape that the Armed Forces may have to shift even more of its focus to unmanned weaponry — and lean more heavily on private security companies, which recruit from a fitter international pool. caption tk Are Americans too fat to serve in the military?
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