recruit
/ɹɪˈkɹuːt/US/ɹɪˈkɹut/
recruit noun: a supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
Noun
recruit (plural recruits)
- A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
- A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
- A hired worker
- These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews
- A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
Verb
recruit (third-person singular simple present recruits, present participle recruiting, simple past and past participle recruited)
- To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
- We need to recruit more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products
- To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
- the army was recruited for a campaign
- they were looking to recruit two thousand troops for battle
- To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
- Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their colour.1726, George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne, Phyllis Drinking
- “You have surprized my poor niece so, that she can hardly, I see, support herself.——Go, my dear, retire, and endeavour to recruit your spirits; for I see you have occasion.” At which words Sophia, who never received a more welcome command, hastily withdrew.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
- To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
- To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
- Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
- Go to the country to recruit.
recruit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
recruit in Hindi
- newly enlisted soldier
- रंगरूट raṅgrūṭ
recruit in Tamil
- புதிதாகச் சேர்க்கப்பட்டவர், கற்றுக்குட்டி
recruit in Marathi
- to recruit
- भरणे bharṇe
recruit in Urdu
- نیا بھرتی, رنگروٹ, بھرتی کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
- recruit in Bengali
- নতুন সদস্য নিয়োগ করা
- recruit in Malayalam
- പുതുതായി തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടയാൾ, പുതിയ അംഗം, പുതുതായി ഒരു സംഘടനയിൽ പ്രവേശിച്ചയാൾ
- recruit in Kannada
- ಹೊಸಪಡೆಯಿಲ, ಹೊಸ ಆಯ್ಕೆಯಾಳು
- recruit in Punjabi
- ਭਰਤੀ ਕਰਨਾ
- recruit in Gujarati
- ભરતી કરવી, ભરતી કરવા
- recruit in Nepali
- भर्ती गर्नुहोस्, भर्ती गर्ने
- recruit in Tagalog
- sungko
- recruit in Indonesian
- rekrut
- recruit in Vietnamese
- lính mới, tuyển dụng
Examples of recruit in a sentence
- The raw recruits helped one another get over the first few days.
- In earlier years, the intelligence services would often recruit agents by tapping them up.
- We sent the new recruit to obtain a bucket of prop wash.
Forms of recruit
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | recruits |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | recruits |
| present participle | recruiting |
| past participle | recruited |
| past | recruited |
Origin of recruit
From French recruter (as a verb).
Words formed from recruit
Phrases with recruit
Words that rhyme with recruit
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
- cheroot
Questions about recruit
- What does recruit mean?
- Recruit means a supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
- What is recruit in Hindi?
- Recruit in Hindi is रंगरूट (raṅgrūṭ). See Recruit meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is recruit?
- Recruit can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce recruit?
- Recruit is pronounced /ɹɪˈkɹut/ (US).
- What is the plural of recruit?
- The plural of recruit is recruits.
Words near recruit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: recruit (page history and authors); recruit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); भरणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); recruit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Recruit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recruit (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recruit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recruit (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recruit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); recruit (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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