recruitment

American  

[ri-kroot-muhnt] / rɪˈkrut mənt /

noun

• recruitments
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• recruitments
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of recruitment

First recorded in 1815–25; recruit + -ment

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Explanation

Recruitment is the act of getting people to sign up for something, especially the military. If you've ever been recruited for something, then someone convinced you to do or join something. The person who convinced you was in the business of recruitment. Recruitment refers to everything people do to get others to join things, like the military. Colleges, sports teams, and businesses are all involved in recruitment when they are trying to attract new students, athletes, and employees. When recruitment is successful, people sign up and join.

Example Sentences

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David Skorton, then-president of Cornell, vowed “to end pledging as we know it,” blaming fraternities’ and sororities’ recruitment process for perpetuating hazing rituals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"The presence of even a small fraction of these tetraploid cells can promote the recruitment of extra non-cancerous cells that support further tumor progression," Sweet said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Done well, the initiative will provide a new model for officer recruitment that makes a military career more accessible for young Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Hollie Moody, head of early careers recruitment at energy giant EDF, says she doesn't blame graduates for using AI in applications given how "brutal" the jobs market is right now.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

He shared my deteimination that we should apply Mr. Muhammad’s formula in a recruitment drive.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

This year, the agency has offered extra pay to help entice retirement-eligible controllers to stay on, while raising wages for early-career employees and stepping up recruitments to the air-traffic-controller academy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

He built relationships by aiding players’ college recruitments — contacting coaches and driving players to colleges for camps and visits.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

Then I think outside of that … there’s recruitments that haunt me from my two years there, at positions of need.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022

Last year BBC Panorama exposed the organisation's recruitments efforts in the UK.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2021

At one time, his force was reduced to five hundred men, and for two months, with all his recruitments of raw militia, did not exceed seven hundred.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

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