Recruit Meaning
/ɹɪˈkɹut/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
nounA person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
Sentence Examples
The papers found lots of monkey business when they investigated the Recruit scandal.
That politician has come down in the world since the so-called "Recruit scandal" was publicized.
We are trying to recruit officers from more diverse backgrounds.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The manager went to the university to ____ new graduates for the team.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The army launched a campaign to ____ young people with technical skills for its cyber division.
Word Origin & History
From French recruter (as a verb).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their colour."
— 1726, George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne, Phyllis Drinking:
"“You have surprized my poor niece so, that she can hardly, I see, support herself.——Go, my dear, retire, and endeavour to recruit your spirits; for I see you have occasion.” At which words Sophia, who never received a more welcome command, hastily withdrew."
— 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
"[…] I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced to recruit myself with food."
— 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 148:
"My husband stayed for some days with the magistrate at Cardwell, recruiting his health and recovering from his fatigues, for the passage between Cape York and Cardwell had proved the most tedious and anxious part of the voyage."
— 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 181:
"Here it was certain she rapidly recovered her lost strength, and recruited her wasted form; and here she received the letters of her beloved family, relating many circumstances well known to our readers, but new to the travellers, the tidings having far to go."
— 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 44:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The manager went to the university to ____ new graduates for the team.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The army launched a campaign to ____ young people with technical skills for its cyber division.