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re⋅cruit

  [ri-kroot]
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–noun
1. a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
2. a new member of a group, organization, or the like.
3. a fresh supply of something.
–verb (used with object)
4. to enlist (a person) for service in one of the armed forces.
5. to raise (a force) by enlistment.
6. to strengthen or supply (an armed force) with new members.
7. to furnish or replenish with a fresh supply; renew.
8. to renew or restore (the health, strength, etc.).
9. to attempt to acquire the services of (a person) for an employer: She recruits executives for all the top companies.
10. to attempt to enroll or enlist (a member, affiliate, student, or the like): a campaign to recruit new club members.
11. to seek to enroll (an athlete) at a school or college, often with an offer of an athletic scholarship.
–verb (used without object)
12. to enlist persons for service in one of the armed forces.
13. to engage in finding and attracting employees, new members, students, athletes, etc.
14. to recover health, strength, etc.
15. to gain new supplies of anything lost or wasted.
Origin:
1635–45; < F, s. of recruter, deriv. of recrue new growth, n. use of fem. ptp. of recroître (re- re- + croître < L crēscere to grow; cf. crescent )

Related forms:
re⋅cruit⋅a⋅ble, adjective
re⋅cruit⋅er, noun
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re·cruit   (rĭ-krōōt')   
v.   re·cruit·ed, re·cruit·ing, re·cruits

v.   tr.
  1. To engage (persons) for military service.
  2. To strengthen or raise (an armed force) by enlistment.
  3. To supply with new members or employees.
  4. To enroll or seek to enroll: colleges recruiting minority students.
  5. To replenish.
  6. To renew or restore the health, vitality, or intensity of.
v.   intr.
  1. To raise a military force.
  2. To obtain replacements for or new supplies of something lost, wasted, or needed.
  3. To regain lost health or strength; recover.
n.  
  1. A newly engaged member of a military force, especially one of the lowest rank or grade.
  2. A new member of an organization or body.

[French recruter, from obsolete recrute, recruit, variant of recrue, from feminine past participle of recroître, to grow again, from Old French recroistre : re-, re- + croistre, to grow (from Latin crēscere; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots).]
re·cruit'er n., re·cruit'ment n.
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Re*cruit"er\, n. One who, or that which, recruits.
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