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re⋅cruit⋅ment

  [ri-kroot-muhnt]
–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.
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Origin:
1815–25; recruit + -ment
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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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Main Entry: re·cruit·ment
Pronunciation: ri-'krüt-m&nt
Function: noun
1 : the increase in intensity of a reflex when theinitiating stimulus is prolonged without alteration of intensity due to the activation of increasing numbers of motoneurons —compare REINFORCEMENT
2 : an abnormally rapid increase in the sensation of loudness with increasing sound intensity that occurs in deafness of neural origin andespecially in neural deafness of the aged in which soft sounds may be completely inaudible while louder sounds are distressingly loud
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recruitment re·cruit·ment (rĭ-kr&oomacr;t'mənt)
n.

  1. An abnormal disproportionate sensation of loudness felt in response to sounds of increasing intensity.

  2. The activation of additional motor neurons in response to sustained stimulation of a given receptor or afferent nerve.

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