recruit

Universal Words verb, noun verb 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 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