(recruits, recruiting, recruited)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you recruit people for an organization, you select them and persuade them to join it or work for it.
The police are trying to recruit more black and Asian officers...
In recruiting students to Computer Systems Engineering, the University looks for evidence of all-round ability...
He helped to recruit volunteers to go to Pakistan to fight.
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• recruiter (recruiters)
...a Marine recruiter.
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• recruiting
A bomb exploded at an army recruiting office.
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2.
A recruit is a person who has recently joined an organization or an army.
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