recruited

Verb

recruit (third-person singular simple present recruits, present participle recruiting, simple past and past participle recruited)

1. 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
2. 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
3. (archaic) 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
4. (intransitive) 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. (dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
   • Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

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