recruitment

[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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of recruitment¹

First recorded in 1815–25; recruit + -ment

Example Sentences

In recent years, South East Asian countries have launched recruitment drives for naturalised players, hoping to emulate Indonesia's strategy of recruiting Dutch-born footballers from the Indonesian diaspora.

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Among the recruitment ads, which appear in Arabic and other languages, Alexandrovna’s channel keeps up a steady rhythm of posts extolling the Russian army’s victories in Ukraine.

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Air Force, some members of which strolled around the event uniformed and at booths hosting pull-up challenges and recruitment efforts near the food vendors.

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In an email sent to all employees, Mr Gould said ZSL had already tightened budgets, frozen non-essential recruitment, and squeezed spending, but, he wrote, "we need to go further".

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She added that his remarks could hurt recruitment.

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