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recruity

recruity noun: a military recruit.

Noun

recruity (plural recruities)

  1. (colloquial, dated) A military recruit.
    • Master Lionel be hot-foot for Winchester, to drill recruities.1918, Horace Annesley Vachell, The Soul of Susan Yellam, page 83
    • He will not tell the "recruity", the street Arab, or the Elmira inmate how he is managed. He will address himself to those who administer the moral capital of society – to teachers, clergymen, editors, law-makers, and judges, who wield the instruments of control […]2016, Jon Frauley, C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination, page 166

Forms of recruity

pluralrecruities

Questions about recruity

What does recruity mean?
Recruity means a military recruit.
What part of speech is recruity?
Recruity is a noun.
What is the plural of recruity?
The plural of recruity is recruities.

Words near recruity in the dictionary

  1. recruitings
  2. recruitment
  3. recruitments
  4. recruits
  5. recruitship
  6. recruity
  7. recrumple
  8. recrumpled
  9. recrumpling
  10. recrush
  11. recrushed

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