RECRUIT

recruit, enlistee

(noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)

recruit, military recruit

(noun) a recently enlisted soldier

recruit, levy, raise

(verb) cause to assemble or enlist in the military; “raise an army”; “recruit new soldiers”

recruit

(verb) seek to employ; “The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants”

enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit

(verb) register formally as a participant or member; “The party recruited many new members”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

recruit (plural recruits)

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 member of a certain population, usually a juvenile.

Verb

recruit (third-person singular simple present recruits, present participle recruiting, simple past and past participle recruited)

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.

(dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.

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

Anagrams

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Source: Wiktionary

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Re*cruit" (r*krt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recruited; p. pr. & vb. n. Recruiting.] Etym: [F. recruter, corrupted (under influence of recrue recruiting, recruit, from recro, p.p. recr, to grow again) from an older recluter, properly, to patch, to mend (a garment); pref. re- + OF. clut piece, piece of cloth; cf. Icel. kl kerchief, E. clout.]

1. To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits. Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their color. Glanvill.

2. Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.

3. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men. M. Arnold.

Re*cruit", v. i.

1. To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

2. To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.

Re*cruit", n.

1. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement. The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers. Burke.

2. Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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