Definition: 1. A recently enlisted soldier. 2. Any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces). 3. Register formally as a participant or member. 4. Seek to employ. 5. Cause to assemble or enlist in the military.
Use 'recruit' in a sentence:
1. The police are trying to recruit more black and Hispanic officers.
2. For rankings-conscious schools in between, merit aid has served primarily as a tool to recruit top students and to improve their academic profits.
3. My life as a recruit was regimented.
4. Girls are being recruited now. I heard they are shaping up very well.
5. You'll have four months in which to lick the recruits into shape.
6. You know the electronics company is coming to our campus to recruit graduate students next week.
7. But since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them.
8. He helped to recruit volunteers to go to Pakistan to fight.
9. Employers fear they will be unable to recruit students with the skills they need as the economic recovery kicks in, a new survey reveals.
10. In recruiting students to Computer Systems Engineering, the University looks for evidence of all-round ability.
11. Nowadays, we see many countries recruit women into their police forces and military.
12. She objected to recruiting that man.
13. The regiment was recruited from the Highlands specifically for service in India.
14. My recruiting sergeant weighed me up when I first walked into his office.
15. The company did not have the money to hire "experts", and there was no established athletic footwear industry in North America from which to recruit those knowledgeable in the field.
16. That suggests it is in the broader corporate interest to recruit top candidates for increasingly tough jobs.
17. Since such students are most likely to advance economically if they succeed in higher education, colleges and universities have pushed for decades to recruit more of them.
18. Since it is only recently that large numbers of women have begun to rise in management, the chairs began to recruit women of high achievement outside the business world.
19. They need to recruit more people into the prison service. But another point I'd like to make is that many prisons were built in the nineteenth century.
20. But for rankings-conscious schools in between, merit aid has served primarily as a tool to recruit top students and to improve their academic profits.
21. My company is having difficulties in recruiting well-qualified staff.
22. The new recruits arrived early, all dressed up and raring to go.
23. Recruit hard for new talent.
24. His job is to recruit for the army.
25. During my Mindsets coaching session, I was taught how to recruit a diversified workforce.
26. The argument for recruiting McGregor was unanswerable.
27. The police are trying to recruit more officers from ethnic minorities.
28. Companies have had to recruit about 1000 women in four years.
29. The country's first act would be to recruit for the navy.
30. Fernandez studied the socioeconomic backgrounds of new recruits.
31. Firms are now keen to hold on to the people they recruit.
32. To recruit is to re-grow the army.
33. There are problems in recruiting suitably qualified scientific officers for NHS laboratories.
34. They work hard to recruit creative people.
35. He recruited two multilingual engineers.
36. He's responsible for recruiting at all levels.
37. He is hoping to recruit a chairman from outside the company.
38. These companies recruit all over the country and the globe for workers with specific abilities.
39. According to Valerie Gauthier, associate dean at HEC Paris, the key lies in the process by which MBA programmes recruit their students.
40. She set up her stand to recruit students to the Anarchist Association.
41. The foremost probably was the sheer need for military manpower that made it attractive to recruit bands of Germanic peoples for the armies.
42. There are not enough native-born workers in these countries so they must recruit workers from other countries.
43. They had welded a bunch of untrained recruits into an efficient fighting force.
44. Some people were unfriendly to the new recruit.
45. He had been recruited by the Russians as a mole and trained in Moscow.
46. Although pressure to recruit women directors, unlike that to employ women in the general work force, does not derive from legislation, it is nevertheless real.
47. We were recruited to help peel the vegetables.
48. No employee can be recruited without the prior approval of the manager.
49. At the time, he was trying to recruit members for his embryonic resistance group.
50. The bill would force employers to adopt a quota system when recruiting workers.
51. The recruits have waltzed through their training.
52. For law students, autumn brings the recruiting season.
53. Before World War II, women were not recruited as intelligence officers.
54. They recruited several new members to the club.
55. The manifesto calls for a greater effort to recruit young scientists to fill the gap left by a wave of retirements expected over the next decade.
56. The police are trying to recruit more black and Asian officers.
57. Some schools have resorted to recruiting teachers from overseas.
58. We are recruiting a sales manager with responsibility for the European market.
