Past tense of recruit
regular verb
The past tense of recruit is recruited. The past participle is also recruited.
Forms of recruit
| Base form (V1) | recruit /ɹɪˈkɹut/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | recruited |
| Past participle (V3) | recruited |
| Present participle | recruiting |
| Third person singular | recruits |
Recruited in a sentence
- the army was recruited for a campaign
- The pipeline is real; individual people are indeed being recruited into the militant right.2022 December 14, Kathleen Belew, “The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2023. From the entry crunchy
- The L.D.S. leadership actively recruited potters; they were an essential part of their idealized, self-sustained Utopian communities.1999 September, Timothy J. Scarlett, “Narcissus’s Mirror: Manufacture and Modernism in the American Great Basin—The Case of Pottery”, in…. From the entry craftly
- Cuddlers are recruited from within the hospital and the local community.1995, David Walter Adams, Eleanor J. Deveau, Beyond the Innocence of Childhood. From the entry cuddler
- Since the outbreak of war women have been recruited for many grades of railway work.1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207. From the entry women
Meaning of recruit
- noun A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
- noun A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
- noun A hired worker.
Questions about the past tense of recruit
- What is the past tense of recruit?
- The past tense of recruit is recruited.
- What is the past participle of recruit?
- The past participle of recruit is recruited.
- Is recruit a regular or irregular verb?
- Recruit is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: recruit (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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