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Etymology

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FromFrenchrecruter(as a verb).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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recruit(pluralrecruits)

  1. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; areinforcement.
  2. A personenlistedfor service in the army; a newly enlistedsoldier.
  3. A hired worker
    These newrecruitswere hired after passing the interviews
  4. (biology,ecology)A new adult or breeding-age member of a certainpopulation.

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Verb

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recruit(third-person singular simple presentrecruits,present participlerecruiting,simple past and past participlerecruited)

  1. Toenrollorenlistnewmembersorpotentialemployeeson behalf of anemployer,organization,sportsteam, themilitary,etc.
    We need torecruitmore admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products
  2. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up byenlistment;also, tomuster
    the army wasrecruitedfor a campaign
    they were looking torecruittwo thousand troops for battle
  3. (archaic)Toreplenish,renew,orreinvigoratebyfreshsupplies;toremedyalackordeficiencyin.
    • 1726,George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne,Phyllis Drinking:
      Her cheeks glow the brighter,recruitingtheir colour.
    • 1749,Henry Fielding,The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
      “You have surprized my poor niece so, that she can hardly, I see, support herself.——Go, my dear, retire, and endeavour torecruityour spirits; for I see you have occasion.” At which words Sophia, who never received a more welcome command, hastily withdrew.
    • 1826,[Mary Shelley], chapter IV, inThe Last Man.[…],volume I, London:Henry Colburn,[…],→OCLC,page148:
      […]I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced torecruitmyself with food.
    • 1887,Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia,page181:
      My husband stayed for some days with the magistrate at Cardwell,recruitinghis health and recovering from his fatigues, for the passage between Cape York and Cardwell had proved the most tedious and anxious part of the voyage.
  4. (biology,intransitive)To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
  5. (biochemistry)Topromptaprotein,leucocyte.etc. tointervenein a givenregionof thebody.
  6. (dated,intransitive)Torecuperate;to gainhealth,flesh,spirits,or the like.
    Lean cattlerecruitin fresh pastures.
    Go to the country torecruit.
    • 1842,[anonymous collaborator ofLetitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVII, inLady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances.[…],volume II, London:Henry Colburn,[…],→OCLC,page44:
      Here it was certain she rapidly recovered her lost strength, andrecruitedher wasted form; and here she received the letters of her beloved family, relating many circumstances well known to our readers, but new to the travellers, the tidings having far to go.

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Translations

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To prompt to intervene in a body region
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