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recruit

/ɹɪˈkɹut/ noun B2
  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 · These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews
  4. A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.

Plural recruits

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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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 234 · C1

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