1 to find new people to join a company, an organization, the armed forces, etc:
[VN] The police are trying to recruit more officers from ethnic minorities. * They recruited several new members to the club. * [V] He's responsible for recruiting at all levels. [also VNtoinf]
2 [VNtoinf] to persuade sb to do sth, especially to help you:
We were recruited to help peel the vegetables.
3 [VN] to form a new army, team, etc. by persuading new people to join it:
to recruit a task force
recruiter noun
recruitment noun [U]:
the recruitment of new members * a recruitment drive
Part of speech: noun
1 a person who has recently joined the armed forces or the police:
the training of new recruits * He spoke of us scornfully as raw recruits (= people without training or experience).
2 a person who joins an organization, a company, etc:
attempts to attract new recruits to the nursing profession
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is recruit a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, recruit is tagged as verb.
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