Lexic.us

Definition of Recruit

1. Noun. A recently enlisted soldier.

2. Verb. Register formally as a participant or member. "The party recruited many new members"

3. Noun. Any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces).

4. Verb. Seek to employ. "The lab director recruited an able crew of assistants"

5. Verb. Cause to assemble or enlist in the military. "Recruit new soldiers"

Definition of Recruit

1. v. t. To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.

2. v. i. To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

3. n. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement.

Definition of Recruit

1. Noun. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement. ¹

2. Noun. A man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier. ¹

3. Noun. A hired worker ¹

4. Verb. To make an attempt to enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, military, etc. ¹

5. Verb. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster ¹

6. Verb. (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy lack or deficiency in ¹

7. Verb. (dated intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recruit

1. to engage for military service [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Recruit

1. A juvenile fish that has survived long enough to become a part of (i.e., recruited into) a population or an exploitable segment of the population. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recruit

recrowned recrowning recrowns recrudency recrudesce recrudesced recrudescence recrudescences recrudescencies recrudescency

recrudescent recrudescent typhus recrudescent typhus fever recrudesces recrudescing recruit (current term) recruitable recruited recruitee recruitees

recruiter recruiters recruiting recruiting-sergeant recruiting response recruitment recruitment detection recruitment zone recruitments recruits

Literary usage of Recruit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"(2) A recruit may be enlisted without the previous production of his birth ... (3) A recruit may be enlisted who is known or believed by the approving ..."

2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"Moved, "That an humble Address I>e presented to His Majesty for Papers relating to the issue of licences to recruit in Portuguese East Africa for the mines ..."

3. Queen's Bench Reports by John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis, Great Britain Court of Queen's Bench (1854)
"57 enacts " That if any recruit shall receive the enlisting money from any person employed in the recruiting service (knowing it to be such), ..."

4. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1851)
"under this Act, notwithstanding no Person belonging to the recruiting Party shall be with the recruit, if it shall appear to euch Justice upon Proof to his ..."

5. "My Gun Was As Tall As Me": Child Soldiers in Burma by Kevin Heppner, Jo Becker (2002)
"The Su Saun Yay recruit Holding Camps All seven of us were sent to a room, and there were about seventy boys there. It was like a barracks, like a lockup. ..."

6. New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865 by Frederick Phisterer (1890)
"Matthew Murphy, in August, 1862, to recruit the 69th National Guard as the let Regiment; Col. Peter McDermott, July 17th, 1862, to recruit the 2d Regiment; ..."

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