Recruit

Definitions: Recruit

Recruit

Noun

1. A recently enlisted soldier.

2. Any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces).

Verb

1. Register formally; as a participant or member.

2. Seek to employ; "The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants".

3. Cause to assemble or enlist; "raise an army".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "recruit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Recruit

Aid

Relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing, set on one's legs; bear through, pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reinforce, reenforce, recruit; set forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance

Auxiliary

Noun: auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant, adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor, coadjutrix; collaborator.

Combatant

Levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies.

Health

Return to health; recover; get better; (improve); take a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure; (restore); tinker.

Improvement

Relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.

Learner

Recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer; seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner; debutant.

Provision

Cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.

Refreshment

Verb: brace; (strengthen); reinvigorate; air, freshen up, refresh, recruit; repair; (restore); fan, refocillate; refresh the inner man.

Restoration

Make whole, redintegrate; recoup; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order; (arrange); refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.

Strength

Render strong; Adjective: give strength; Noun: strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh; refect; reinforce, reenforce; (restore).

Crosswords: Recruit

He's a new recruit, he just got here yesterday. (American Ninja; writing credit: Gideon Amir; Paul De Mielche)

That new recruit is phenomenal, sir! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

A police recruit was asked during the exam, "What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?" He said, "Call for backup. (references; author: unknown)

The Reluctant Recruit (1971)

Blanket-Tossing a New Recruit (1898)

The Recruit (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• RECRUIT COSMOS Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• How to Prepare for and Conduct Job Interviews: Increase Your Ability to Recruit and Hire Good Workers [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• How to Really Recruit, Motivate and Lead Your Team: Managing People (reference)

• How to Recruit Generation Me (reference)

• How to Recruit Great Board Members: A Guide for Nonprofit Agencies (reference)

• Recruit & Retain The Best (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Recruit Firefighter Magazine (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Recruit (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Prize Recruit [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• The Recruit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Map of United States showing geographic variation in the frequency of Navy recruit reactors to histoplasmin, 1958-1965.Credit: CDC.

Doonesbury. Peter, I'm speaking to two new arrivals in the Gulf today--a raw recruit, and a seasoned reservist.Credit: Library of Congress.

His first recruit of the new revolution.Credit: Library of Congress.

The latest suffrage recruit.Credit: Library of Congress.

Doonesbury. Peter, I'm speaking to two new arrivals in the gulf today--a raw recruit, and a seasoned reservist! Your first reactions, guys! / G.B. Trudeau.Credit: Library of Congress.

Will recruit white Russian army.Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Vermont, a recruit.Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Jeeps. Putting "shoes" on another hard-boiled recruit. An army jeep nears completion in a big Midwest auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress.

Depot Brigade Recruit Camp, 1500 Tents, Camp Custer.Credit: Library of Congress.

The New recruit.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The present provision does not, however, affect the right of France to recruit for the Foreign Legion in accordance with French military laws and regulations. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Other associations sought to recruit from the large mother societies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Binding to specific receptors on target cells, cytokines recruit many other cells and substances to the field of action. (references)

It is, therefore, unlikely that HMO's will develop programs to recruit such members unless special incentives are created. (references)

Virus-infected cells in the nose send out signals that recruit specialized white blood cells to the site of the infection. (references)

Business

Hairdressing franchisers seek to recruit established professionals, newcomers or investors. (references)

For example, certain sectors, such as do-it-yourself or auto-repair centers, tend to recruit men as operators. (references)

Similarly, ready-to-wear or cosmetics franchise concepts will generally recruit women, and restaurants will attract couples. (references)

Children

Liberia

The armed forces continued to recruit forcibly underage soldiers. (references)

Uganda

LDU's may recruit children under the age of 18 with parental consent. (references)

Iraq

Sources in the opposition report that the army found it difficult to recruit enough children to fill all of the vacancies in the program. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tanzania

Parties granted provisional registration may hold public meetings and recruit members. (references)

Economic History

India

They may earn a one-time reward for people they help recruit. (references)

India

Most multinationals recruit managerial and engineering staff locally for their Indian operations. (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

As of year's end, prosecutors still were investigating the September 2000 death of juvenile military recruit Pedro Centurion. (references)

Angola

In November and December, the Ministry of Defense initiated a highly publicized conscription campaign to recruit 15,000 persons into the FAA. (references)

Burundi

The Chief Prosecutor, who is Hutu, led a government effort during the year to recruit Hutu attorneys living abroad to return to the country to work as magistrates. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

The Government also made efforts to recruit justices of the peace who are bilingual in Spanish and an indigenous language. (references)

Minorities

Macedonia

The military continued efforts to recruit and retain minority officers and cadets. (references)

United Kingdom

In 1999 the Home Secretary ordered the police to recruit 8,000 officers from ethnic minorities within 10 years. (references)

Political Economy

Qatar

Many government jobs are offered only to citizens and private sector businesses are encouraged to recruit citizens as well. (references)

BRAZIL

Although the mobile inspection teams have been effective, the hidden nature of forced labor and the lack of effective prosecution of those who recruit and contract forced laborers allow perpetrators to operate with relative impunity. (references)

Women

Yemen

In addition in late 2000, the Ministry of Interior initiated an aggressive campaign to recruit and train female police officers; the new officers completed training and were deployed in March. (references)

Worker Rights

Burundi

Rebels also recruit and use children for labor. (references)

Burundi

Rebel groups also recruit children as soldiers. (references)

Algeria

It also permits unions to recruit members at the workplace. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "recruit": raw recruit ♦ recruit drill ♦ recruit office ♦ recruit officer ♦ recruit service ♦ seaman recruit ♦ training of new recruit. Additional references.

Beginning with "recruit": recruit-a-friend, Recruit-cosmos, recruit-tainted.

Ending with "recruit": half-recruit, post-recruit.

Albanian

rekrutoj (conscript, draft, draught, enlist, induct, levy), rekrut (acquisitive, conscript, draftee, inductee, trainee), punonjës i ri, punoj (do, drive, employ, engage, go, labor, labour, operate, serve, work), fillestar (apprentice, beginner, catechumen, departure, elementary, freshman, incipient, infantile, initial, learner, neophyte, novice, preliminary, prime, primitive, primordial, radical, rookie, tiro, youngling), bëj anëtarë të rinj, angazhoj (book, busy, engage, sign), anëtarësoj, anëtar i ri (catechumen). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منتسب جديد, ‏متطوع جديد, ‏مجند مبتدئ, ‏تطوع (enlist, volunteer, volunteering), ‏عضوية جديد في حزب, ‏عضو جديد في جماعة, ‏جيش (army, fizz, force, legion), ‏جند في حزب, ‏جند (camp, commandeer, draft, draught, enlist, enroll, induct, soldiery), ‏إستأجر (charter, hire, lease, rent, wage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

възстановявам се (convalesce, pick up, recuperate, regenerate, ride again), новобранец (boot, inductee, raw recruit, rookie, yard bird, zombie), нов член на партия, засилвам се (accelerate, gather strength, intensify, pick up, strengthen, tone up), подсилвам (buttress, enforce, fortify, invigorate, punctuate, reinforce, stiffen, strengthen, tone up, touch up, undergird). (various references)

Chinese 

新兵, 招�"� (hire). (various references)

Czech

rekrut, verbovat, posílit (augment, beef up, brace, build up, buttress, corroborate, fortify, invigorate, reinforce, revitalize, strengthen), nováèek (fledgeling, fledgling, greenhorn, new boy, newcomer, novice, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro), doplnit (amend, complete, fill in, piece out, refill, replenish, stock, supply), branec (conscript). (various references)

Danish

rekrut. (various references)

Dutch

recruteren. (various references)

Esperanto

rekruto, rekrutigi, rekruti, varbito, varbi. (various references)

Faeroese

vega, útvega (achieve, acquire, attain, employ, get, hire, obtain, provide). (various references)

Farsi 

نیروی تازه گرفتن , نواموزاستخدام کردن , کارمندتازه , حال امدن (Recuperate), تازه سرباز. (various references)

Finnish

värvätä (drum up, enlist). (various references)

French

recruter, recrue. (various references)

Frisian

rekrút, oanbringe (accommodate, accuse, adapt, adjust, attune, bring, denounce, fetch, fit, fix, give an account, mount, place, report, tune). (various references)

German

Rekrut (draftee, inductee, rookie, trainee), werben (advertise, attract, enlist, match, match-make, recruiting, to tout, tout, weaving, win, woo), rekrutieren (to recruit), anwerben (employ, enlist, enroll, hire, sign up). (various references)

Greek 

στρατολογώ (call up, conscript, draft, draught, enlist, impress, induct, levy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'ויס (draftee, enlisted, selectee, tyro), ל�"צביא (conscript, enlist, mobilize, muster). (various references)

Hungarian

regruta (conscriptee, rookie, rooky), újonc (apprentice, boot, conscript, conscriptee, dog-face, draftee, freshman, freshmen, greener, inductee, neophyte, new comer, novice, noviciate, rookie, rooky, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro), új tag. (various references)

Indonesian

rekrut, mendapatkan (discover, find out, invent, procure, visit), calon (applicant, aspirant, candidate, designate, postulant, prospective). (various references)

Italian

arruolare (draft, draught, enlist, enrol, enroll, join up, levy, sign on, sign up, tout, woo), ingaggiare (engage, enlist, enrol, enroll, hire). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

リアルタイ� 処理 (liaison, Likud, liqueur, liquid, liquor, real politics, real price, real time processing, recall, recital, reclining seat, recommendation, reconstruction, recorder, recover, recovery, recovery shot, recreation, recruit fashion, recruiter, recurrent, recurrent neural network, recursion, recursive, recycle, recycle shop, recycling, re-engineering, regret, request, research, resize, rickettsia, Ricoh, rig, Rigel Kentaurus, rigorism, rigorist), 三士 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リクルート , さ�"し (deep reflection, silk thread, silk yarn, silkworm-egg paper, three outs). (various references)

Korean 

� 참자 (recruiter). (various references)

Manx

troggal sidooryn (recruiting), sidoor noa, noanee (new boy, newcomer, novice), listal (enlist, enlistment, enrol, enrolment, join up, leaning, list, recruitment, tilting). (various references)

Pig Latin

ecruitray

Portuguese

recruta (conscript, dog-fancier, drafter, rookie, rustic, yard bird), recrutar (conscript, Crimp, enlist, enroll, enrollment, impress, levy, list). (various references)

Romanian

restabili (piece up, re establish, recover, redintegrate, redress, rehabilitate, reinstate, reintroduce, reseat, reset, resettle, restore, retrieve), reface (change, do over, do up, re establish, rebuild, recast, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, redress, reform, remake, remodel, repair, restore, retread, retrieve), recupera (recoup, recover, retrieve, salvage), recruta (commandeer, conscript, draft, enlist, levy, muster in), recrut (beginner, conscript, draftee, rookie, tyro), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), novice (apprentice, beginner, callow, colt, cub, entrant, fledgeling, greenhorn, innocent, intrant, neophyte, new, novice, probationer, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro, untried), leat, completa (activate, complement, complete, fill, fill up, round, supplement), aproviziona (furnish, provide, provide for, provision, stock, store, supply), întãri (bind, bond, brace, bracket, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enforce, entrench, fix, fortify, harden, indurate, invigorate, nerve, reinforce, screw, season, stay, steady, steel, stiffen, strengthen, stress, tone up), înrola (enlist, levy). (various references)

Russian 

укреплять (consolidate, fix, fortify, harden, reenforce, reinforce, strengthen), рекрут (dogface, intake, rookie), комплектовать, вербовать (enlist, enrol, recruited), новый член, новобранец (jeep, rookie, yard-bird), новичок (apprentice, aprentice, beginner, catechumen, colt, cub, first-timer, fresher, green hand, greener, greenhorn, mug, newcom, newcomer, new-comer, novice, rookie, tenderfeet, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro), набирать новобранцев, привлекать к участию, призывник (draftee, inductee, selectee). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

regrutovati (conscript, draft, enlist, levy), regrut (conscript, draftee, enlisted man, trainee), vrbovati (tout). (various references)

Spanish

alistar (enlist, enrol, enroll, enter, induct, join up), reclutar (beat up, commandeer, conscript, enlist, levy, raise). (various references)

Swedish

rekryt (conscript), rekrytera. (various references)

Turkish

yeni üye, toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), silâh altına almak (call up, mobilize), kuvvetlendirmek (beef up, brace up, build up, confirm, fortify, hop up, intensify, stiffen, strengthen, support), iyileştirmek (ameliorate, amend, better, cicatrize, cleanse, cure, heal, improve, make better, nurse, pull round, pull through, recuperate, rehabilitate, remedy, set up, upgrade), iyileşmek (ameliorate, amend, be recovered from, cicatrize, come along, come through, come to, convalesce, do better, get better, get well, heal, heal over, heal up, improve, meliorate, mend, perk oneself, perk oneself up, pick up, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, recuperate, return to health), askere almak (conscript, Crimp, draft, draught, enlist, enrol, enroll, induct, levy), acemi er, acemi asker (conscript, inductee, rookie), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job). (various references)

Turkmen 

pyntyklamak (dial (to telephone), enlist). (various references)

Ukranian 

відновлення (reconstruction, recrudescence, re-establishment, regain, repair, restoration, resurrection, retrieval), вербувати (beat up, enlist), новобранець (boot, conscript, freshman, rookie, zombie), новий член, зміцнювати (afforce, back, consolidate, establish, fasten, re-enforce, steady, stiffen), поповнювати (eke out, renew, replace). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lính mới hội viên mới. (various references)

Welsh

adfilwr. (various references)

crescere, tirones. (various references)

creue. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "recruit": recruited, recruiter, recruiters, recruiting, recruitment, recruitments, recruits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Recruit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bercuit, Receuil, recircuit, recruid, recruite, recrut, recrute, recuit, recurit, recutita, redrit, rerit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: curite, currie, curter, uretic.

-2 letters: citer, crier, cruet, curer, curet, curie, cuter, cutie, eruct, recti, recur, recut, ricer, trice, trier, truce, truer, ureic, uteri.

-3 letters: cire, cite, cure, curr, curt, cute, ecru, etic, etui, rice, rite, ruer, tier, tire, true, uric.

-4 letters: cue, cur, cut, ecu, err, ice, ire, rec, rei, ret, rue, rut, tic, tie, tui.

-5 letters: er, et, it, re, ti, ut.

+1 letter: courtier, crustier, recruits, turmeric, ureteric.

+2 letters: courtiers, courtlier, couturier, criterium, curtailer, incurrent, recruited, recruiter, reticular, rubricate, scripture, stricture, turmerics.

+3 letters: caricature, corruptive, couturiere, couturiers, criteriums, curtailers, haircutter, introducer, quercitron, recruiters, recruiting, rubricated, rubricates, scriptures, scrutineer, strictures, trifurcate, undertrick.

+4 letters: agriculture, bacteriuria, carbureting, carburetion, caricatured, caricatures, cartularies, charcuterie, circuitries, corruptible, counterfire, counterraid, couturieres, crematorium, eurythermic, haircutters, incorrupted, incurvature, interchurch, intercourse, introducers, mariculture, mercurating, mercuration, natriuretic, neurotropic, quercitrons, recapturing, recirculate, recruitment, reintroduce, relubricate, scrutineers, scrutinizer, sericulture, subdirector, superscript, terricolous, thermoduric, trifurcated, trifurcates, undertricks, ventricular.

+5 letters: agricultures, architecture, bacteriurias, bureaucratic, carburetions, carburetting, charcuteries, chartularies, circumcenter, citriculture, correctitude, corruptively, countercries, counterfired, counterfires, counterraids, crematoriums, diverticular, floriculture, fluorimetric, fluorometric, horticulture, incurvatures, instructress, insurrection, intercluster, intercountry, intercourses, interculture, intercurrent, interlocutor, internuclear, maricultures, mercurations, meretricious, microculture, natriuretics, peritrichous, rearticulate, recentrifuge, recirculated, recirculates, recontouring, recruitments, recuperating, recuperation, recuperative, reintroduced, reintroduces, relubricated, relubricates, renunciatory, reproduction, reproductive, resurrecting, resurrection, resuscitator, scrutinizers, scurrilities, sericultural, sericultures, stringcourse, subdirectors, superscripts, surrealistic, tubocurarine, ultraprecise, unrestricted, unrhetorical.

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