English Explanatory Dictionary

recruit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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
  4. A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
verb
  1. To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
  2. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
  3. To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
  4. To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
  5. To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
  6. To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.

Pronunciation

rĭʹkro͞ot /ɹɪˈkɹut/ /ɹɪˈkɹuːt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-recruit.wav

Word forms

recruit recruits recruiting recruited

Etymology

From French recruter (as a verb).

Derived words

corecruit misrecruit recruithood recruitship seaman recruit decruit derecruit nonrecruited nonrecruiting overrecruit over-recruit recruitable recruitage recruital recruitee recruiter recruitment rerecruit underrecruit unrecruited
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