recruit
Other forms: recruits; recruiting; recruited
To recruit means to get someone to join something. You might recruit people for the navy or you might recruit members for your quilting group.
The verb recruit often refers to formally joining an organization or a group, such as the military or a corporation. It can also be used more broadly to refer to getting someone to participate in a cause, formal or otherwise, like when you recruit your friend to help paint your room. As a noun, recruit means "a person who has been recruited." If you just joined the Army, you're a new recruit.
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cause to assemble or enlist in the military
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register formally as a participant or member“The party recruited many new members”type of:registerrecord in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
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seek to employ
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a recently enlisted soldiersynonyms: military recruittypes:Black and Tanan English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921raw recruitan inexperienced and untrained recruitsproga new military recruittype of:enlisted mana male enlisted person in the armed forces
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any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)
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