recruitment

[ ri-kroot-muhnt ]
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noun
  1. the act or process of recruiting.

  2. Physiology. an increase in the response to a stimulus owing to the activation of additional receptors, resulting from the continuous application of the stimulus with the same intensity.

Origin of recruitment

1
First recorded in 1815–25; recruit + -ment

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