recruit
/ɹɪˈkɹut/ verb B2- To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc. · We need to recruit more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products
- To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster · the army was recruited for a campaign· they were looking to recruit two thousand troops for battle
- To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
- To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
- To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like. · Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.· Go to the country to recruit.
He/she/it recruits · Past recruited · Past participle recruited · -ing form recruiting
Verb forms
- Base form
- recruit
- He/she/it
- recruits
- Past
- recruited
- Past participle
- recruited
- -ing form
- recruiting
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The Panther, however, when he had recruited his feeble strength, freed himself with a sudden bound from the pit, and hastened to his den with rapid steps.
I cannot doubt that Stapleton recruited his waning resources in this fashion, and that for years he has been a desperate and dangerous man.
This made him less uneasy, it must be owned, than if the new-comer had proved to be a customs officer; but this supposition also disappeared like the first, when he beheld the perfect tranquillity of his recruit.
Because bobsledding requires an explosive start, they recruited top sprinters from the Jamaican military.
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